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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Negation, ‘presupposition’
and metarepresentation: a response
to Noel Burton-Roberts
Contributor:
CARSTON, ROBYN
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1999
Published in:Journal of Linguistics
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0022226799007653
ISSN:
0022-2267;
1469-7742
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Metalinguistic negation (MN) is interesting for at least the following two
reasons: (a) it is one instance of the much broader, very widespread and
various phenomenon of metarepresentational use in linguistic communication,
whose semantic and pragmatic properties are currently being
extensively explored by both linguists and philosophers of language; (b) it
plays a central role in recent accounts of presupposition-denial cases, such as
‘The king of France is not bald; there is no king of France’. It is this latter
employment that discussion of metalinguistic negation has focused on since
Horn (1985)'s key article on the subject. While Burton-Roberts (1989a,
1989b) saw the MN account of presupposition-denials as providing strong
support for his semantic theory of presupposition, I have offered a multi-layered pragmatic account of these cases, which also involves MN, but
maintains the view that the phenomenon of presupposition is pragmatic
(Carston 1994, 1996, 1998a).</jats:p>