[HTML][HTML] Practical (un) cancellability
F Macagno - Journal of Pragmatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancellability is an essential feature of implicatures. However, its reliability has been
challenged by several cases and examples in which conversational implicatures seem to be …
challenged by several cases and examples in which conversational implicatures seem to be …
When cancellation becomes unreasonable
Cancellability–one of the most important tests for implicatures–has been attacked from
different perspectives, and its reliability challenged by several cases and examples in which …
different perspectives, and its reliability challenged by several cases and examples in which …
Implicature, inference and cancellability
M Haugh - Perspectives on pragmatics and philosophy, 2013 - Springer
The standard position in pragmatics to date has been that cancellability is useful way of
differentiating implicatures from logical implications, semantic entailments and the like. In …
differentiating implicatures from logical implications, semantic entailments and the like. In …
The cancellability test for conversational implicatures
J Zakkou - Philosophy Compass, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many people follow Grice in thinking that all conversational implicatures are cancellable.
And often enough, they use this insight as a test for conversational implicatures. If you want …
And often enough, they use this insight as a test for conversational implicatures. If you want …
How to cancel an implicature
L Mayol, E Castroviejo - Journal of Pragmatics, 2013 - Elsevier
Cancelability is one of the main tests to identify conversational implicatures in general, and
scalar implicatures in particular. Despite this fact, cancelability itself is a phenomenon rarely …
scalar implicatures in particular. Despite this fact, cancelability itself is a phenomenon rarely …
Conversational implicature and the cancellability test
M Blome-Tillmann - Analysis, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Matthew Weiner has recently argued in this journal that not all conversational implicatures
are explicitly cancellable and he has inferred from this that Grice's familiar 'cancellability test …
are explicitly cancellable and he has inferred from this that Grice's familiar 'cancellability test …
Can entailments be implicatures?
A Moldovan - Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Is it possible for the same proposition to be both entailed and conversationally implicated by
what is said? A review of the literature that discusses implicatures reveals that the question …
what is said? A review of the literature that discusses implicatures reveals that the question …
Infelicitous cancellation: The explicit cancellability test for conversational implicature revisited
J Åkerman - Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This paper questions the adequacy of the explicit cancellability test for conversational
implicature as it is commonly understood. The standard way of understanding this test relies …
implicature as it is commonly understood. The standard way of understanding this test relies …
Innocent implicatures
A Dinges - Journal of Pragmatics, 2015 - Elsevier
It seems to be a common and intuitively plausible assumption that conversational
implicatures arise only when one of the so-called conversational maxims is violated at the …
implicatures arise only when one of the so-called conversational maxims is violated at the …
Are all conversational implicatures cancellable?
M Weiner - Analysis, 2006 - JSTOR
Grice argued that a generalized conversational implicature, in which a certain form of words
usually carries a certain implicature, can be can celled in a certain case; either'explicitly... by …
usually carries a certain implicature, can be can celled in a certain case; either'explicitly... by …