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Mazzone, Marco. 2014. The Continuum Problem: Modified Occam’s Razor and Conventionalisation of Meaning. International Review of Pragmatics 6 (1) : 29–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conventional implicature | implicature | polysemy | uses of language | word choice

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

To surmount problems for Grice’s “Modified Occam’s Razor” (MOR) as a methodological principle and the fundamental implicature concept in lexical pragmatics, this paper suggests a reinterpretation of implicatures as implicature-like effects provided by non-inferential processes.