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Publication details [#20488]

König, Ekkehard and Elizabeth C. Traugott. 1988. Pragmatic strengthening and semantic change: The conventionalizing of conversational implicature. In Geiger, Richard A. The problems of reference and the indeterminancy of `refer'. In : 85–96. : 110–124.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational implicature | semantic change

Person as a subject

Grice, P.H.

Annotation

A study in the field of semantic change, integrating Grice's theory of pragmatics, and further developments of that theory, with the theory of regulating in semantic change. More specifically, it is argued that semantic change can occur as a result of conversational implicatures becoming conventionalized.