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Publication details [#64435]

Noveck, Ira A., Hugo Mercier, Diana Mazzarella and Robert Reinecke. 2018. Saying, presupposing and implicating: How pragmatics modulates commitment. Journal of Pragmatics 133 : 15–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

commitment | implication | meaning | pragmatics | presupposition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Three experiments display that commitment is modulated by different meaning-relations. Speakers are less committed to what they implicate than what they say. Speakers are less committed to what they implicate than what they presuppose. Implicit communication reduces the reputational detriment of untrustworthy speakers.