Conventional Implicatures in Ukrainian Discourse

Conversational and conventional implicatures

Computing Presuppositions and Implicatures in Mathematical Discourse

In any well-written mathematical discourse a certain amount of mathematical and meta-mathematical knowledge is presupposed and implied. We give an account on presuppositions and implicatures in mathematical discourse and describe an architecture that allows to effectively interpret them. Our approach heavily relies on proof methods that capture common patterns of argumentation in mathematical d...

Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures

In this paper we discuss the interdependence of scalar implicatures and discourse structuring questions. We show that even prototypical cases of scalar implicatures can depend on an explicitly or implicitly given Question under Discussion. Particularly, we argue against the idea that scalar implicatures are automatically generated by the logical form of an utterance. We distinguish between thre...

Conventional implicatures , a distinguished class of meanings ∗

The history of conventional implicatures is rocky, their current status uncertain. It seems wise to return to their source and start fresh, with an open-minded reading of the original definition (Grice, 1975) and an eye open for novel support. Suppose the textbook examples (therefore, even, but and synonyms) disappeared. Where would conventional implicatures be then? This paper argues that they...

How and Why Conventional Implicatures Project

It is well-known that a single utterance may convey different types of information, for example new and old information. It is not always clear, however, how these types of content relate to each other. One way to pursue a unified semantic analysis would be to see how different types of content that exhibit the same semantic property relate to each other. Of particular interest in this context ...