Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate

   • Salvatore Pistoia Reda

   Pages 1-12

3. The Roots of (Scalar) Implicature

   • Laurence R. Horn

   Pages 13-39

4. On the Roles of Markedness and Contradiction in the Use of Alternatives

   • Roni Katzir

   Pages 40-71

5. Intermediate Scalar Implicatures

   • Uli Sauerland

   Pages 72-98

6. An Account for the Homogeneity Effect Triggered by Plural Definites and Conjunction Based on Double Strengthening

   • Giorgio Magri

   Pages 99-145

7. Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge: Comments on Magri (2011)

   • Benjamin Spector

   Pages 146-169

8. Pragmatic Back-and-Forth Reasoning

   • Michael Franke, Gerhard Jäger

   Pages 170-200

9. Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures Share the Same Processing Signature

   • Alexandre Cremers, Emmanuel Chemla

   Pages 201-227

10. Back Matter

    Pages 228-242

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This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.

• pragmatics
• semantics
• scalar implicatures
• philosophy of language
• game-theoretical analysis
• Grice
• Gricean theory
• logico-linguistics
• semantic

• Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali Politiche e Cognitive, Università di Siena 1240, Italy

  Salvatore Pistoia Reda

• Zentrum für Allegmeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

  Salvatore Pistoia Reda

Emmanuel Chemla, École Normale Supérieure, France Alexandre Cremers, École Normale Supérieure, France Michael Franke, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Laurence Horn, Yale University, USA Gerhard Jäger Tübingen University, Germany Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University, Israel Giorgio Magri, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Uli Sauerland, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Germany Benjamin Spector, Institut Jean Nicod, France

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