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Le implicature scalari
Pistoia-Reda, Salvatore
Romoli, Jacopo
2015
Abstract
In the last fifteen years, in the phisophical and linguistic literature, there has been a renewed interest in the mechanisms underlying the computation of implicatures, scalar ones in particular. Largely, this interest has been sparked by the emergence of of a grammatical approach, according to which scalar implicatures would arise from the semantic component of the human cognitive faculty, rather than being rooted in more general pragmatic reasoning. The goal of this paper is to provide a presentation of some of the main arguments, motivating the grammatical approach. We will start by describing the main properties of scalar implicatures, which constitutes the core data that all different perspectives in the literature need to account for. Then, we will go more in detail into the phenomenon by looking at some of the characteristic features of the standard pragmatic approach to scalar implicatures, showing some of their weaknesses, as identified by the proponents of the grammatical approach. Finally, we will present the grammatical approach, discussing the advantages on the one hand, and the remaining challenges for this novel approach, on the other
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Salvatore Pistoia-Reda, Jacopo Romoli, "Le implicature scalari", in "APhEx 11", 2015, pp. 39
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it
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