Discourse, Diversity, and Free Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21293407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Schwarz (0000-0002-9965-1115, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-67 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8402 • E-ISSN: 1470-6828 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2020.1736108 |
| OpenAlex | W3014086984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
‘You may have beer or wine’ suggests that you may have beer and you may have wine. Following Klinedinst, I argue that this ‘free choice’ effect is a special kind of scalar implicature, arising from the application of an unspecific predicate to a plurality (of worlds). I show that the implicature can be derived from general norms of cooperative communication, without postulating new grammatical rules or hidden lexical items. The derivation calls for an extension to the classical neo-Gricean model. I give independent arguments for this extension
Extension (predicate logic) · Implicature · Linguistics · Mathematical economics · Pragmatics · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Informativeness, relevance and scalar implicature
Formal methods in the study of Language
Modal subordination and pronominal anaphora in discourse
Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures
Logic and Conversation
Pragmatics
Consistency preservation in Quantity implicature
Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences
Universal Implicatures and Free Choice Effects
Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification
The grammar of quantification and the fine structure of interpretation contexts
Imperatives and Logic
Scalar Implicatures in Complex Sentences
Modals as distributive indefinites
On the characterization of alternatives
Structurally-defined alternatives
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |