Relações anafóricas podem ser explicadas através de princípios pragmáticos? Um argumento contra a teoria de Stephen Levinson

In this paper I present an argument against Levinson’s thesis according to which anaphoric relations might be fully explained by means of pragmatic principles. The thrust of my argument consists in pointing out the fact that every conversional implicature is cancellabe, a fact which, in my own view, is not properly taken into consideration in Levinson’s pragmatic approach to anaphoric relations. I draw on Levinson’s account of anaphoric relations in sentences containing a reflexive pronoun.