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- Title
Experimental pragmatics: Testing for implicitures.
- Authors
Garrett, Merrill; Harnish, Robert M.
- Abstract
Grice proposed to investigate ‘the total signification of the utterance’. One persistent criticism of Grice’s taxonomy of signification is that he missed an important category of information. This content, and/or the process of providing it, goes by a variety of labels: ‘generalized implicature’, ‘explicature’, ‘unarticulated constituents’, ‘default heuristics’, ‘impliciture’. In this study we first take a sample of such phenomena and, from the point of view of pure pragmatics, survey the central descriptions of the content expressed and the mechanisms that might deliver these contents. We then, from the point of view of experimental pragmatics, focus on two accounts: Levinson’s I-heuristic, and Bach’s standardization. We find experimental evidence for the existence of such implicitures, and for the use of language specific standardizations over language neutral background information.
- Publication
Pragmatics & Cognition, 2007, Vol 15, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0929-0907
- Publication type
Academic Journal