Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
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But what is relevance?This is (ahem) a difficult question, but here’s a first stab at ananswer:Anything that is of potential interest to the hearer isrelevant.How does the speaker decide what is of interest to the hearer?There are at least 3 different ways:S can assume that all discourse goals are of interest to H.H may have personal interests that S knows about.S can assume that everything of general interest is ofinterest to H.<strong>Quantity</strong> <strong>implicatures</strong>
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