Resumen de Local pragmatics and structured contents
There is a long-standing and rarely contested view that Gricean conversational reasoning�the kind of reasoning that supports the identification of conversational implicatures�cannot produce pragmatically generated modification of the contents of embedded clauses. The goal of this paper is to argue against this view: to argue that embedded pragmatic effects can be seen as continuous with ordinary, utterance-level, conversational implicature. I will further suggest, though, that embedded pragmatic effects do force on us a particular conception of semantics. Specifically, I will argue that an adequate account of the data requires a semantic framework that posits structured contents.
