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Burton-Roberts, Noel. 2013. On Grice and cancellation. Journal of Pragmatics 48 (1) : 17–28.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

In response to Robyn Carston's (2010) plea for explicature as terminable, this article explores what Grice meant by ‘cancellable’. It presents reasons for assuming that only generalised conversational implicatures are cancellable, not relevance theory's explicatures or particularised conversational implicatures. It concludes by obelizing relevance theory's re-analysis of Grice's GCIs as explicatures.