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When evaluating conversational implicatures, linguists often invoke the Q-principle to explain why a speaker's failure to make a stronger statement implies that the stronger statement is false.
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When evaluating conversational implicatures, linguists often invoke the Q-principle to explain why a speaker's failure to make a stronger statement implies that the stronger statement is false.
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Q-principle
Proper noun
In
the
neo-Gricean
semantics
and
pragmatics
of
Laurence
R.
Horn:
a
reformulation
of
Paul
Grice's
maxim
of
quantity
combined
with
the
first
two
submaxims
of
manner,
stating:
"Say
as
much
as
you
can
(given
R)",
and
leading
to
the
implicature
that
if
the
speaker
did
not
make
a
stronger
statement
(or
say
more),
then
its
denial
is
(implied
to
be)
true.
Japanese Meaning
Laurence R. Hornによるneo-Gricean意味論・語用論の枠組みで提唱された、ポール・グライスの量の原則を再構成した原理。すなわち、情報提供において「できる限り多くの情報を提供すべし」という発話の指針であり、話者がより強い主張や追加情報を提供しなかった場合、その省略が否定の含意として働くと解釈される。 / 会話において、情報が十分に提供されない場合、その不足分が暗に事実と逆の主張（否定）を示唆していると理解する語用論的原則。
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