Properties of Implicatures Strong dependency on context(see the complex implicature example Defeasibility(they are not entailments, and addition of new facts can cancel them)
Properties of Implicatures • Strong dependency on context (see the complex implicature example) • Defeasibility (they are not entailments, and addition of new facts can cancel them)
F Why is the problem of implicature hard? Deals with the "logic defying" aspects of communication The cooperation principles are hard to formulate (work is still done in this area, and no author claims he has a final form of the principles Implicatures are hidden. 1. e. they do not appear in text, which makes a statistical approach less accessible
Why is the problem of implicature hard? • Deals with the “logic defying” aspects of communication • The cooperation principles are hard to formulate (work is still done in this area, and no author claims he has a final form of the principles) • Implicatures are “hidden”, i.e. they do not appear in text, which makes a statistical approach less accessible