Mayol, LaiaCastroviejo, Elena2018-03-162018-03-162013Mayol L, Castroviejo E. How to cancel an implicature. J Pragmat. 2013;50(1):84-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.02.0020378-2166http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34187Cancelability is one of the main tests to identify conversational implicature in general, and scalar implicatures in particular. Despite this fact, cancelability itself is a phenomenon rarely looked at. This paper presents an account of when the cancellation of a scalar implicature is an acceptable discourse move and provides experimental evidence to support our proposal. Our main claim is that the felicity of a scalar implicature cancellation depends on the discourse structure. More speci cally, cancellation is acceptable only if it addresses a Question Under Discussion that di ers from the previous one. As will be shown, this proposal has the additional bene t of permitting us to tease apart cancellations from self-repairs.application/pdfeng© Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.02.002info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.02.002Conversational implicaturesScalar implicaturesCancellationQuestion under discussionProjective meaningExperimental pragmaticsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess