33.147, Confs: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 33.147, Confs: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 01:14:01
From: Nicole Gotzner [nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com]
Subject: XPRAG Wine Gatherings

 
XPRAG Wine Gatherings 
Short Title: XPRAG-Wine 

Date: 20-Jan-2022 - 20-Jan-2022 
Location: Potsdam (Zoom), Germany 
Contact: Nicole Gotzner 
Contact Email: nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/xprag-wine/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The next XPRAG Wine Gathering is going back to its roots. After a year, we
return to one of our founding fathers, Richard Breheny from UCL. On 20th
January Richard will present a talk titled ''The money or the slime:
Exclusivity implicatures in semi-cooperative contexts and their consequences
for pragmatic accounts'', based on joint work with Paul Marty, Yasu Sudo and
Jacopo Romoli. Join us in drinking a Grange Hermitage from South Australia or
a cold beer (but make sure to avoid slime!).

Date: 20th January, 8.15 p.m. (CET)
Speakers: Richard Breheny (UCL)
Talk: The money or the slime: Exclusivity implicatures in semi-cooperative
contexts and their consequences for pragmatic accounts
Hosts: Nicole Gotzner (University of Potsdam) and Ira Noveck (Université de
Paris, CNRS)
Drink menu: Grange Hermitage from South Australia or beer (but no slime!)
Zoom link:
https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/87650602862?pwd=MUFvWG1iTVFCNHJZei84cHBITDdndz09
Meeting ID: 876 5060 2862
Passcode: 202020
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRufcORQIM1yz4clsk6afLw
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/xprag-wine/home

Abstract: 
Two widely discussed implications of typical uses of disjunction (‘A or B’)
are ignorance implicatures (the speaker does not know if A is true or not,
likewise B) and exclusivity implicatures (not [A and B]). According to
standard pragmatic accounts (see Sauerland, 2004), both implications result
from reasoning about a co-operative speaker who conforms to expectations about
the utility of their utterance. Fox (2014) discusses a ‘guess the box’
game-show context in which a host (who is known to know the facts) provides a
hint as to which box some prize money is in, ‘There is money in box A or B’.
Fox argues that, in such contexts, the host is not normally co-operative, no
ignorance implicatures arise, and yet an exclusivity implications do arise.
This is taken as evidence against standard pragmatic accounts and for Fox’s
favoured grammatical account of scalar implicatures. Here we develop an
experimental paradigm due to Agyemang (2020) to test an alternative
explanation of the game-show implications by controlling for features of the
context that may give rise to exclusivity independently of standard pragmatic
reasoning. Our results show that exclusivity implications are equally robust
in both contexts. We take these results as motivation to re-think the standard
pragmatic account of the reasoning associated with disjunction and show how a
more nuanced description allows for exclusivity to arise in such contexts.
Finally, we discuss how both this pragmatic account and Fox’s favoured
grammatical account leave open a question as to why language users favour
exclusivity when the situational evidence for that implication is quite
equivocal.

References Agyemang, C. (2020). Scalar implicatures under uncertainty. ms
Carleton U. • Fox, D. (2014). Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another
challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures Semantics & Pragmatics •
Sauerland, U. (2004). Scalar implicatures in complex sentences.L&P 27:
367–391.
 






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