Pragmatically Factive Implication of Even If

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 정영한 Younghan Chung
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제117호, 271~292쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.06.30

영문 초록

S ince Pollock (1976), there has been much debate on the so-called consequent-entailment problem of even if P, Q (eP > Q ). Researchers such as Bennett (1982, 2003), L ycan (1991), Barker (1991, 199 4 ), and G uerzoni & L im (2007) tried to offer explanations about this linguistic phenomenon. However, in most cases, eP > Q generates a factive implicature rather than an entailment, which this paper endeavors to explain. The present study also presents conditions for pragmatically factive implication (PF I ) of the consequent of eP > Q . For eP > Q to be felicitous, P should be at a point on a given scale low enough to make eP > Q sufficiently informative. The consequent of eP > Q has PF I iff P is at the lowest point on a given scale or alternative conditions at lower points than P are pragmatically excluded either for their pragmatic irrelevance or pragmatic impossibility. Their pragmatic relevance is determined by mutual knowledge between the speaker and the hearer(s), and their pragmatic possibility is by world knowledge

목차

1. I ntroduction

2. Previous Accounts of Even If

3. Entailment vs. PF I of Even If

4. Conditions for PFI

5. Concluding Remarks

키워드

consequent-entailment problem of even if P, Q pragmatically factive implication (PFI) of the consequent of eP > Q sufficiently informative pragmatic relevance pragmatic possibility mutual knowledge world knowledge