Are There Non-Propositional Implicatures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10691358
AutoresArthur Sullivan (0000-0001-8161-3404, Memorial University of Newfoundland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen73
Número2
Páginas580-601
Fecha de publicación2023-03-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqac043
OpenAlexW4294714117
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

Could there be an implicature whose content is not propositional? Grice's canon is somewhat ambivalent on this question, but such figures as Sperber & Wilson, Davis, and Lepore & Stone presume that there cannot be, and argue that this causes glaring failures within the Gricean programme. Building on work by McDowell and Buchanan, I argue that, on the contrary, the notion of non-propositional implicature is very much worth investigating. I show how the notion has promise to illuminate the content of many sorts of complex utterance—from the cases of verbal irony, metaphorical usage, slurring, insinuation, and (some kinds of) humour, to various others which involve expressive or evaluative content

Ambivalence · Content (measure theory) · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Epistemology · Grice · Implicature · Irony · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Psychoanalysis · Utterance · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation