Are There Non-Propositional Implicatures

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10691358
AutoresArthur Sullivan (0000-0001-8161-3404, Memorial University of Newfoundland, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume73
Fascículo2
Páginas580-601
Data de publicação2023-03-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqac043
OpenAlexW4294714117
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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