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Publication details [#2271]
Cole, Peter. 1974. Conversational implicature and syntactic rules. In Shuy, Roger W. and Charles-James N. Bailey, eds. Towards tomorrow's linguistics. Georgetown University Press. pp. 104–119.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
C. examines a class of sentences (viz. 'let's'-sentences) which appear to be excellent candidates for a Gricean analysis (in terms of conversational implicature), but he shows that such an analysis would be incorrect, which suggests some problems for the applicability of the Gricean approach.