Cooperativeness and implicature - A reversed perspective

Benny Shanon*

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Abstract

The basic tenets of the theory of conversation developed by Grice and Searle are analyzed and criticized. The analysis of indirect speech acts as derived from direct ones by means of implicatures is argued to be based on a logical petitio petitii. It is suggested that literal meaning need not be the basis for the interpretation of utterances; that conversation may involve the disregard - as contrasted with the maximally cooperative transfer - of information; and that rules of interpretation may constrain meanings rather than expand them.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)289-293
Number of pages5
JournalNew Ideas in Psychology
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

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