Conventional implicatures and presupposition
pp. 198-206
in: Frank Liedtke, Astrid Tuchen (eds), Handbuch Pragmatik, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2018Abstract
Whereas the 1970s have given rise to a great number of works on presupposition (cf. Kempson 1975; Wilson 1975; Kiparsky/Kiparsky 1971; Gazdar 1979; Ducrot 1972; Rogers et al. 1977; Oh/Dinneen 1979; Levinson 1983 a. o.), the 1980s up to now have shown a major preference for the issue of implicature (cf. Horn 1984, 1989; Sperber/Wilson 1995; Levinson 2000; Carston 2002; Potts 2005; Chierchia 2013). Nonetheless, a revival for the issue of presupposition has been observed, mainly due to a change of paradigm in semantics, as dynamic semantics (cf. Beaver 2001; Roberts 2004)) and intensional semantics (cf. von Fintel/Heim 2011). In another way, whereas most neo-Gricean (cf. Levinson 2000) and post-Gricean (cf. Carston 2002; Wilson/Sperber 2012) had abandoned the Gricean notion of conventional implicature, it has been recently set at the centre of issues as clefts and exclusive sentences for instance (cf. Beaver 2014).