[lit-ideas] Re: The Importance of Being Only
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:01:48 +0000 (GMT)
>I think J. D. Atlas has written on this, from a Gricean perspective. He
argues that 'only' adds only to the IMPLICATURE. Never to the explicature:
"She is a whore"
"She is only a whore".
"only" does not _add_ to the *semantics* -- only the pragmatics.>
Depending what we mean by meaning, surely "only" does change the meaning and
thus the semantics? Perhaps you were thinking of Charles Atlas?
Donal
Salop
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