Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7297774 | Journal of Pragmatics | 2017 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
This paper considers four lines of objection to the efficacy or worth of Grice's cancellability test for conversational implicatures - the coherence objection, the entailment objection, the sarcasm objection, and the ambiguity objection. I argue that the test survives these objections relatively unscathed; and hence conclude that the cancellability test is still a significant, useful, reliable indicator at the semantics/pragmatics interface.
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Arthur Sullivan,