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Publication details [#45760]

Davis, Wayne. 2007. How normative is implicature. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (10) : 1655–1672.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper argues that making Grice's conversational implicature theory normative in the ways suggested by Jennifer Saul and Mitchell Green doesn't evade the major problem raised by Davis with regard to Grice's theory: the intentionality of speaker implicature and the conventionality of sentence implicature.