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This is a response to Carston's critique of my account of presupposition-cancellation. While accepting her demonstration that (contra 'On Horn's dilemma') presupposition-cancellation does not involve a linguistically encoded contradiction, I show that this is nevertheless consistent with the account of presupposition proposed in Burton-Roberts 1993/7. In fact, Carston's and my accounts of presupposition-cancellation both treat it as involving a pragmatically derived contradiction. I also reconsider the nature of so-called 'metalinguistic negation', arguing against Carston that there is a special use of negation (!MN) which involves a use-mention mix and a pragmatically derived contradiction, and is non-truth-functional. I show that, although !MN is echoic, not all echoic negations are examples of !MN. © 1999 Cambridge University Press.
Author(s): Burton-Roberts N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Linguistics
Year: 1999
Volume: 35
Issue: 2
Pages: 347-364
Print publication date: 01/07/1999
ISSN (print): 0022-2267
ISSN (electronic): 1469-7742
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
