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Publication details [#43998]

Capone, Alessandro. 2006. On Grice's circle (a theory-internal problem in linguistic theories of the Gricean type). Journal of Pragmatics 38 (5) : 645–669.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | conversational implicature | pragmatics | semantics2 | truth condition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines a conversational fragment, the analysis of which can add to the explanation of the semantics/pragmatics debate and of Grice's circle. There is a way out of Grice's circularity as explicatures (or implicitures) are found to be non-cancellable.