Many people follow Grice in thinking that all conversational implicatures are cancellable. And often enough they use this insight as a test for conversational implicatures. If you want to find out whether something is a conversational implicature, the test has it, you should ask yourself whether the thing in question is cancellable; if you find that it is not cancellable, you can infer that it is not a conversational implicature. If you find that it is cancellable, you can infer that it might well be a conversational implicature and that you should now do further testing. Various philosophers and linguists have questioned the test however. Some have held that Grice’s cancellability claim is subject to counterexamples and that the test is not reliable. Others have argued that even though Grice’s claim can be defended against the examples in question, the test is not as informative as people have hoped. This article provides an overview of the recent discussion on the cancellability test and suggests a way forward.

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会话含意的可取消性测试

许多人跟随Grice认为所有对话含义都是可以消除的。他们经常将这种洞察力用于测试会话含意。如果您想确定某事物是否具有会话含义，请通过测试确定该事物是否可以取消；如果发现它不能取消，则可以推断出它不是会话含义。如果您发现它可以取消，则可以推断它很可能是会话含义，现在应该进行进一步测试。然而，各种哲学家和语言学家都质疑这一测试。一些人认为，格赖斯的可撤销性声明受反例约束，并且该测试不可靠。其他人则争辩说，尽管格赖斯的主张可以针对所涉及的例子进行辩护，但这种检验并没有人们期望的那样丰富。本文概述了有关可取消性测试的最新讨论，并提出了前进的方向。