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Publication details [#57415]

Mayol, Laia and Elena Castroviejo. 2013. How to cancel an implicature. Journal of Pragmatics 50 (1) : 84–104.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

It is argued that scalar implicature cancellation only constitutes an acceptable discourse move when addressing a Question Under Discussion differing from the previous one. This suggestion moreover allows teasing apart cancellations from self-repairs.