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Publication details [#31905]

Hirschberg, Julia and Gregory Ward. 1991. A pragmatic analysis of tautological utterances. Journal of Pragmatics 15 (6) : 507–520.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational implicature | pragmatic interpretation | tautology

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper proposes a new Gricean account of tautological utterances, formerly generally characterized as cases of Gricean conversational implicature (Grice 1975), yet under attack since Wierzbicka's (1987) 'radical semantics' approach to tautology.