On Conversational Implicatures in Questions

• Authors: Tomasz Puczyłowski , Daniel Ziembicki

Title variants

PL

O implikaturach konwersacyjnych pytań

EN

On Conversational Implicatures in Questions

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article explores the connection between questions and conversational implicatures. We put forward a theoretical argument to the effect that questions can contain such implicatures. We also present extensive empirical material that confirms this hypothesis. The article focuses on a class of utterances used simultaneously to express an epistemic stance toward a state of affairs stated in a subordinate clause and to receive a response from an interlocutor, like in the following example: Don’t you think Peter should be going home now?

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-48

Dates

published

2018-03-25

Contributors

author

Tomasz Puczyłowski

author

Daniel Ziembicki

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/filnau.2018.0002