Missing-link conditionals
Pragmatically infelicitous or semantically defective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12859884 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karolina Krzyżanowska (0000-0002-6424-8027, University of Amsterdam), Igor Douven (0000-0003-3413-080X, Sorbonne Université, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-211 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ip-2018-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2800911369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 35 |
According to virtually all major theories of conditionals, conditionals with a true antecedent and a true consequent are true. Yet conditionals whose antecedent and consequent have nothing to do with each other—so-called missing-link conditionals—strike us as odd, regardless of the truth values of their constituent clauses. Most theorists attribute this apparent oddness to pragmatics, but on a recent proposal, it rather betokens a semantic defect. Research in experimental pragmatics suggests that people can be more or less sensitive to pragmatic cues and may be inclined to differing degrees to evaluate a true sentence carrying a false implicature as false. We report the results of an empirical study that investigated whether people’s sensitivity to false implicatures is associated with how they tend to evaluate missing-link conditionals with true clauses. These results shed light on the question of whether missing-link conditionals are best seen as pragmatically infelicitous or rather as semantically defective
Antecedent (behavioral psychology · Epistemology · Implicature · Linguistics · Nothing · Pragmatics · Sentence · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Conditionals
A Theory of Conditionals
On the conflict between logic and belief in syllogistic reasoning
On Conditionals
Some utterances are underinformative
Indicative conditionals
A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
Conditionals are material
How to account for the oddness of missing-link conditionals
The evidential support theory of conditionals
Truth and meaning
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |