Comparing Conventions

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We offer a novel account of metalinguistic comparatives according to which they express comparative commitments between conventions. On this view, a metalinguistic comparative like 'Al is more crazy than stupid' expresses the relative strength of the speaker's commitment to a convention which counts Al as crazy compared to a convention which counts Al as stupid. This view is inspired by other uses of conventions within semantics, such as metalinguistic negotiations and convention-shifting conditionals.

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