Bilmes1993
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Bilmes1993 |
Author(s) | Jack Bilmes |
Title | Ethnomethodology, culture, and implicature: Toward an empirical pragmatics |
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Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Culture, Implicature, Pragmatics, Grice |
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Year | 1993 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Pragmatics |
Volume | 3 |
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Pages | 387-409 |
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Abstract
This paper is, in part, an attempt to "respecify" the study of implicature as an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic undertaking. To the linguistic pragmzrtists, I am proposing a methodological reorientation. To the ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts, I am proposing a broadening of interests ancl an open-minded appreciation of what linguistic pragmatics has to offer. To both, I am suggesting an increased sensitivity to the subtleties of cultural context.a There remains, of course, the question of whether Grice's particular proposals are useful or accurate. In what tollows, I will have occasion to offer some evaluation of the Gricean approach, but I will be primarily concerned with presenting a form of nonGricean implicature. The approach that I propose grounds implicature in specific conversational procedures and cultural understandings, and produces, I believe, clearer and more constrained outcomes than Gricean procedures.
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