TY - CHAP
T1 - A graded strength for privileged interactional interpretations
AU - Sternau, Marit
AU - Ariel, Mira
AU - Giora, Rachel
AU - Fein, Ofer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper investigates the discourse status and psychological reality of three pragmatic levels of interpretation: explicature, strong implicature, and weak implicature. We test the potential of each of these levels to constitute the Privileged Interactional Interpretation, i.e., the most relevant message of an utterance as intended by the speaker and understood by the addressee (Ariel M. J Prag 34(8): 1003–1044, 200; Pragmatics and grammar. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008). But our hypothesis takes the concept of the Privileged Interactional Interpretation a step further. We propose a scale of pragmatic interpretation strength: Explicature > Implicature[strong] > Implicature[weak]. We argue that the stronger (i.e., left) the representation on the scale, the more likely it is to count as the Privileged Interactional Interpretation.
AB - This paper investigates the discourse status and psychological reality of three pragmatic levels of interpretation: explicature, strong implicature, and weak implicature. We test the potential of each of these levels to constitute the Privileged Interactional Interpretation, i.e., the most relevant message of an utterance as intended by the speaker and understood by the addressee (Ariel M. J Prag 34(8): 1003–1044, 200; Pragmatics and grammar. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008). But our hypothesis takes the concept of the Privileged Interactional Interpretation a step further. We propose a scale of pragmatic interpretation strength: Explicature > Implicature[strong] > Implicature[weak]. We argue that the stronger (i.e., left) the representation on the scale, the more likely it is to count as the Privileged Interactional Interpretation.
KW - Discourse
KW - Explicature
KW - Privileged interactional interpretation
KW - Strong implicature
KW - Weak implicature
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9_35
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AN - SCOPUS:85028540945
T3 - Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology
SP - 703
EP - 723
BT - Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -