Westera, Matthijs2018-12-182018-12-182018Westera M. Rising declaratives of the quality-suspending kind. Glossa. 2018;3(1):121:[32 p.]. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.415.2397-1835http://hdl.handle.net/10230/36136The 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.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commonsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.415Rising declarativeIntonational compliance markingBiasConversational maximQuestion under discussioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess