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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 4] 2022
► pp. 43–62

Chapter 3
The role of inference in the construction of meaning

Entailment and presupposition

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Basic modes of inferencing: Deduction, induction, and abduction
    • 2.1Deduction
    • 2.2Induction
    • 2.3Abduction
  • 3.Entailment
  • 4.Presupposition
    • 4.1Existential and uniqueness presupposition
    • 4.2Factive presuppositions
    • 4.3Evaluative presuppositions
    • 4.4Suspending or canceling a presupposition
    • 4.5Negation and presupposition
    • 4.6Discourse-pragmatic presupposition
    • 4.7The information status of presupposition
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes