Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation
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Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation
Quantity implicatures are inferences triggered by an utterance based on what other utterances a speaker could have made instead. Using ideas and formalisms from game theory, I demonstrate that these inferences can be explained in a strictly Gricean sense as rational behavior. To this end, I offer a procedure for constructing the context of utterance insofar as it is relevant for quantity reason...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.4.1