Cooperative versus argumentative communication
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In pragmatics, the theory of language use, it is standard to assume that communication is a cooperative affair. Recently, this standard view has come under attack by Ducrot and Merin, and it has been proposed that an argumentative view on natural language use is more appropriate. In this paper I discuss to what extent this attack is justified and whether the alternative view can provide a more adequate analysis of ‘pragmatic meaning’, i.e., implicatures. ∗The research of this work is supported by a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), which is gratefully acknowledged. For writing this paper I profited a lot from discussions with Katrin Schulz on exhaustive interpretation and Merin’s analysis of implicatures. Thanks also to Martin Stokhof and an anonymous reviewer for their comments. A longer version of this paper can be found at http://turing.wins.uva.nl/vanrooy. Philosophia Scientiæ, 8 (2), 2004, 195–209. 196 Robert van Rooij
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