LING 360 Study Guide - Final Guide: Implicature, Presupposition, Champagne Glass
5 Dec 2016
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Assignment 4 is good practice for this chapter. Or, premise 1: wellington was taller than napoleon. It is not possible for both premises to be true and the conclusion false. Again, it is not possible for the premise to be true and the conclusion false. If you build in the right kind of information, your view of these answers will change. Non-conventionality: implicatures do not have conventional meaning, as do idioms or words. Derivability: there is train of reasoning connecting the literal meaning with the implicature. Come back to the difference between implicatures and entailment. Sheila owns a cat, but she does not own an animal. Sheila owns a cat; in fact, she owns two cats. Sheila own exactly one cat, in fact, she owns two. Cooperation: one should make one(cid:495)s conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the conversation in which one is engaged.
