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The Non Cooperative Basis of Implicatures

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Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics (LACL 2012)

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This paper presents and addresses a problem in pragmatics concerning the inference of implicatures within a Gricean framework. I propose a model in which implicatures are reasonable even in the absence of the sort of strong cooperativity supposed by Griceans.

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Asher, N. (2012). The Non Cooperative Basis of Implicatures. In: Béchet, D., Dikovsky, A. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7351. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31262-5_3

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