BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2007/newsitem/2007/10- October-2007-Logic-Language-and-Reasoning-Seminar- Bart-Geurts DTSTAMP:20070922T000000 SUMMARY:Logic, Language and Reasoning Seminar, Bar t Geurts ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Bart Geurts DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20071010T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20071010T180000 LOCATION:Room 006, Institute of Linguistics OTS, J anskerkhof 13a., Utrecht DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The Gricean theory of conve rsational implicature has always been plagued by d ata suggesting that what would seem to be conversa tional inferences may occur within the scope of op erators like believe, for example - which for bona fide implicatures should be an impossibility. Con centrating my attention on scalar implicatures, I argue that, for the most part, such observations c an be accounted for within a Gricean framework, an d without resorting to local pragmatic inferences of any kind. However, there remains a small class of marked cases that cannot be treated as conversa tional implicatures, and they do require a local m ode of pragmatic interpretation. For more infor mation contact Jakub Szymanik at szymanik at illc. uva.nl X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
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Abstract:
\n The Gricean theory of con
versational implicature has always been plagued by
data suggesting that what would seem to be conver
sational inferences may occur within the scope of
operators like believe, for example - which for bo
na fide implicatures should be an impossibility. C
oncentrating my attention on scalar implicatures,
I argue that, for the most part, such observations
can be accounted for within a Gricean framework,
and without resorting to local pragmatic inference
s of any kind. However, there remains a small clas
s of marked cases that cannot be treated as conver
sational implicatures, and they do require a local
mode of pragmatic interpretation.\n
\n For more information contac
t Jakub Szymanik at szymanik