Linguistic form and relevance
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Relevance: Communication and Cognition
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Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Linguistic form and relevance" ?
In utterances with illocutionary adverbials, or parentheticals of the type discussed by Ifantidou ( forthcoming ), Itani ( l990 ) and Blakemore ( 1991 ), it might be argued, a la Grice, that the speaker is simultaneously making two assertions, each with its own truth conditions ; one might then investigate the possibility that intuitions about the truth conditions of the utterance as a whole are based on the assertion which makes the major contribution to overall relevance. In H. Parret, M. Sbisa and J. Verschueren ( eds ) Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. What the authors hope to have shown is that such research can be usefully conducted within the broader cognitive and communicative framework outlined here. For further discussion and a range of additional examples, see Carston 1988.
Q3. What are the types of sentences that are conceptual and non-truth-conditional?
Various types of sentence adverbial, including the illocutionary adverbials 'seriously', 'frankly', etc., are conceptual and non-truth-conditional: they encode concepts which are constituents not of the proposition expressed but of higher-level explicatures..(c) Discourse connectives such as 'so' and 'after all' are procedural and non-truth-conditional: they encode procedural constraints on implicatures.
Q4. Does Grice's work amount to a reanalysis of conventional implicature?
Blakemore's work on discourse connectives amounts to a reanalysis in procedural terms of Grice's notion of conventional implicature.
Q5. What is the reason to treat illocutionary adverbials as both?
It seems, then, that there is good reason to treat illocutionary adverbials as both non-truth-conditional and conceptual, thus abandoning the idea that all non-truth-conditional meaning is necessarily procedural and cut to a single pattern.