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SUMMARY:On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the m
 yth of conventional implicature - Dr. Yasutada Sudo (University College Lo
 ndon)
DTSTART:20190516T160000Z
DTEND:20190516T173000Z
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CONTACT:Yixin Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Natural language semantics is known to be multidimensional in 
 the sense that linguistic utterances may convey different types of informa
 tion at the same time\, e.g. assertive meaning (aka at-issue meaning)\, pr
 esupposition\, conversational implicature. In this talk we argue that what
  is called “conventional implicature” (aka “use-conditional meaning
 ”) in the current literature since Christopher Potts’ seminal work (Po
 tts 2005\, McCready 2010\, Gutzmann 2015\, 2019) is not a homogenous class
 \, and that the phenomena discussed under this rubric do not require a spe
 cial compositional semantic theory of the kind that the authors cited here
  put forward. Instead\, we claim that the relevant phenomena are analyzabl
 e in terms of at-issue meaning\, presupposition\, and a non-compositional 
 kind of meaning\, which we call “associative meaning” (cf. Leech 1981)
 \, and the category of conventional implicature in the sense intended by t
 he above authors is dispensable.\n
LOCATION:GR06/07\, Faculty of English\, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site)
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