Rising declaratives of the quality-suspending kind
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- dc.contributor.author Westera, Matthijs
- dc.date.accessioned 2018-12-18T12:21:01Z
- dc.date.available 2018-12-18T12:21:01Z
- dc.date.issued 2018
- dc.description.abstract The theory of Intonational Compliance Marking (ICM) maintains that speakers of English use final rising intonation to indicate a suspension (potential violation) of a conversational maxim (Westera 2013; 2014). This paper aims to show that a certain kind of rising declarative, one which has been prominent in the literature (e.g., Gunlogson 2008), can be adequately understood in ICM’s terms as involving a suspension of the maxim of Quality. By explicating certain minimal assumptions about pragmatics, this understanding accounts for three core features of such rising declaratives: their question-likeness, the speaker bias they express and their badness out of the blue. In a nutshell, their question-likeness is derived from principles of general cooperative discourse, their bias from the relative importance of the maxim of Quality, and their badness out of the blue from a competition between rising declaratives and interrogatives. The account is compared in detail to various existing accounts of rising declaratives of the relevant sort, highlighting explanatory and empirical differences.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work has benefited from detailed commentary by four anonymous reviewers for Glossa, as well as Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen. Any remaining errors are of course my own. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 715154).
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- dc.identifier.citation Westera M. Rising declaratives of the quality-suspending kind. Glossa. 2018;3(1):121:[32 p.]. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.415.
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.415
- dc.identifier.issn 2397-1835
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/36136
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Ubiquity Press
- dc.relation.ispartof Glossa. 2018;3(1):[32 p.]. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.415.
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/715154
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- dc.subject.keyword Rising declarative
- dc.subject.keyword Intonational compliance marking
- dc.subject.keyword Bias
- dc.subject.keyword Conversational maxim
- dc.subject.keyword Question under discussion
- dc.title Rising declaratives of the quality-suspending kind
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