Varieties of conventional implicature

By Eric McCready. 2010

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This paper provides a system capable of analyzing the combinatorics of a wide range of conventionally implicated and expressive constructions in natural language via an extension of Potts's (2005) L_CI logic for supplementary conventional implicatures. In particular, the system is capable of analyzing objects of mixed conventionally implicated/expressive and at-issue type, and objects with conventionally implicated or expressive meanings which provide the main content of their utterances. The logic is applied to a range of constructions and lexical items in several languages. doi:10.3765/sp.3.8 BibTeX info

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “In examples such as these McCready (2010) points out that ‘‘In ordinary denial, the truth of any at-issue [i.e., descriptive] part of a sentence can be called into question’’ (p. 7).”
It's Not What You Said, It's the Way You Said It: Slurs and Conventional Implicatures (2013, background): “9 It is widely acknowledged that slurs convey derogatory content under negation and within the scope of conditionals (see McCready 2010). said.”
The Pragmatics of Slurs (2017, background): “Potts (2007), Saka (2007), Richard (2008), Bosivert (2008), McCready (2010), and Gutzmann (2013) each give (to varying degrees) expressivist semantics to explain embedding failures and perspective dependence.”