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Invited presuppositions and the pragmatics of trick questions

Invited presuppositions and the pragmatics of trick questions AbstractTrick questions are a subgenre of puzzles that have undergone little, if any, semantic-pragmatic study, in part because they are often conflated with riddles. While they do share some mechanisms with riddles, they lean much more heavily on pragmatic mechanisms, and how they make use of them is quite different. This paper focuses on three types of invited presuppositions (box, red herring, and rug) that add more weight to the theory that presuppositions are best suited to pragmatic analysis. The lingering question is whether these three types are more or less comprehensive, or if other types might be distilled from other trick questions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Review of Pragmatics Brill

Invited presuppositions and the pragmatics of trick questions

Lotze, Nathaniel
International Review of Pragmatics , Volume 11 (2): 7 – May 14, 2019
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1877-3095
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10.1163/18773109-01102106
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Abstract

AbstractTrick questions are a subgenre of puzzles that have undergone little, if any, semantic-pragmatic study, in part because they are often conflated with riddles. While they do share some mechanisms with riddles, they lean much more heavily on pragmatic mechanisms, and how they make use of them is quite different. This paper focuses on three types of invited presuppositions (box, red herring, and rug) that add more weight to the theory that presuppositions are best suited to pragmatic analysis. The lingering question is whether these three types are more or less comprehensive, or if other types might be distilled from other trick questions.

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International Review of Pragmatics – Brill

Published: May 14, 2019

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