Missing-link conditionals: Pragmatically infelicitous or semantically defective?
Intercultural Pragmatics, ISSN: 1613-365X, Vol: 15, Issue: 2, Page: 191-211
2018
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Article Description
According to virtually all major theories of conditionals, conditionals with a true antecedent and a true consequent are true. Yet conditionals whose antecedent and consequent have nothing to do with each other-so-called missing-link conditionals-strike us as odd, regardless of the truth values of their constituent clauses. Most theorists attribute this apparent oddness to pragmatics, but on a recent proposal, it rather betokens a semantic defect. Research in experimental pragmatics suggests that people can be more or less sensitive to pragmatic cues and may be inclined to differing degrees to evaluate a true sentence carrying a false implicature as false. We report the results of an empirical study that investigated whether people's sensitivity to false implicatures is associated with how they tend to evaluate missing-link conditionals with true clauses. These results shed light on the question of whether missing-link conditionals are best seen as pragmatically infelicitous or rather as semantically defective.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85046531723&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2018-0004; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ip-2018-0004/html; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ip-2018-0004/pdf; http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/iprg.2018.15.issue-2/ip-2018-0004/ip-2018-0004.xml; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ip-2018-0004/xml
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