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Presupposition-cancellation and metalinguistic negation: a reply to Carston

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Noel Burton-Roberts

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Abstract

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.

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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

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