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Presupozycje a wzmocnienie
Presuppositions and reinforceability

Author(s): Mateusz Włodarczyk
Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: pragmatics; presuppositions; implicative verbs; reinforceability; conversational implicature

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes the experiment concerning reinforceability of conversational implicatures and presuppositions. In the field of pragmatics it is assumed that conversational implicatures can be reinforced while presuppositions cannot. Test subjects evaluated a set of statements containing implicatures and presuppositions which were presented in two versions: non-reinforced and reinforced. Results of the experiment suggest that not only implicatures but also statements that contain implicative verbs can be reinforced without sense of anomalous redundancy.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 39-55
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish