Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures

Benz, Anton; Salfner, Fabienne

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36976-6_5

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“…The quantity implicatures considered so far seem to suggest that QUDs activate alternative sets, and that the alternative chosen as answer implicates that the stronger alternatives have to be negated. Moving away from quantity implicature, we 4 See Benz & Salfner (2013) for a more extensive discussion of the dependencies between QUDs and implicature.…”

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Questions Under Discussion: From Sentence to Discourse

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Jasinskaja

2017

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Questions Under Discussion: From Sentence to Discourse

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The “All Lives Matter” response: QUD-shifting as epistemic injustice

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2021

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Drawing on recent work in formal pragmatic theory, this paper shows that the manipulation of discourse structure—in particular, by way of shifting the Question Under Discussion mid-discourse—can constitute an act of epistemic injustice. I argue that the “All Lives Matter” response to the “Black Lives Matter” slogan is one such case; this response shifts the Question Under Discussion governing the overarching discourse from Do Black lives matter? to Which lives matter? This manipulation of the discourse structure systematically obscures the intended meaning of “Black lives matter” and disincentivizes future utterances of it.

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