This chapter presents a model according to which implicatures, which are traditionally analyzed in terms of cooperative principles, remain rational in strongly non cooperative settings.

Two mouse-tracking experiments tested predictions from two different models of scalar implicature as to whether exhaustive interpretations are computed prior ignorance implicatures. We use German intonational patterns probe the availability these (Experiments 1 and 2) add a speaker competence manipulation in Experiment 2. Results found that deriving with an L+H* was delayed implicatures L*+H co...

Abstract This paper explores the idea that scalar implicatures are computed with respect to discourse referents . Given general consensus a proper account of pronominal anaphora in natural language requires separately from truth-conditional meaning, it is naturally expected anaphoric information carry play role computation implicatures, but literature has so far mostly exclusively focused on di...