9 Say What

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Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

ISSN: 1472-7870
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Document Information:
Title:	9 Say What
Author(s):	Ian Ross
Volume:	24 Editor(s): Ken Turner ISBN: 978-0-85724-909-8 eISBN: 978-0-85724-910-4
Citation:	Ian Ross (2011), 9 Say What, in Ken Turner (ed.) Making Semantics Pragmatic (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.205-226
DOI:	10.1108/S1472-7870(2011)0000024011 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	The Games of Partial Information (GPIs) of Parikh (2001) can be used to show that cases of putative implicature in the ‘intrusive constructions’ of Levinson (2000) are indeed implicatures and not part of what is said. In order to reach this conclusion, we must discard reinforceability and cancellability as necessary conditions for conversational implicature. Our game-theoretic model shows that tests of these conditions are sometimes not felicitous as a corollary of interlocuters' utility maximization in sentential contexts. As a result of these arguments and those put forth by Saul (2002), a simpler theory of the semantics/pragmatics interface can be maintained: one in which ordinary implicatures of sub-sentential constituents do not serve as input to the semantic calculation of the parent sentence.