2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures
verfasst von : Anton Benz, Fabienne Salfner
Erschienen in: Logic, Language, and Computation
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this paper we discuss the interdependence of scalar implicatures and discourse structuring questions. We show that even prototypical cases of scalar implicatures can depend on an explicitly or implicitly given Question under Discussion. Particularly, we argue against the idea that scalar implicatures are automatically generated by the logical form of an utterance. We distinguish between three types of discourse questions each having different effects on implicatures.