LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Implicature, Pragmatics, Presupposition
30 Nov 2015
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Looks beyond literal meaning of an utterance. Considers how meaning is constructed, focusing on implied meanings. Considers language as an instrument of interaction, what ppl mean when they use language & how we communicate & understand each other. Remember entailment: when truth of 1 sentence guarantees truth of another, we say there"s a relation o entailment. Example: (a) sarah parked the car. (b) the car is not moving. meaning. Grice formulated cooperative principle that we seem to follow (for most part) when having conversation w/ another person. Don"t say what you believe to be false. Don"t say that for which you lack adequate evidence. Basically, don"t lie & don"t state things that you don"t have evidence for. Of course, these maxims get broken a lot. Don"t just say things that have nothing to do w/ convo. Example of a violation of this maxim: Make your contribution as informative as required. Don"t make your contribution more informative than required.
