고정함축과 전제

Abstract

This paper investigates two important semantic phenomena, conventional implicature and presupposition. Bach (1999: 327, 365) proposes that "there is no each thing as conventional implicature," and that "the propositions that are alleged to be conventional implicatures are actually aspects of what is said." He also suggests that the expressions that have been thought to generate conventional implicatures do not seem to contribute to the truth-conditional aspects of the sentence, since their contribution is secondary to the main point of the utterance. This paper reexamines the nature of the so-called conventional implicatures. It further searches into the issue of whether conventional implicature and presupposition are identical notions.