Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
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Relevance II: hearers’ personal interests(14) A: I tried to call you yesterday. Where were you?B: I was playing golf with a friend of mine.B’s utterance is likely to implicate that his golf partner isnot among A and B’s mutual friends,even if this information is not relevant to the immediatepurpose of the discourse.<strong>Quantity</strong> <strong>implicatures</strong>
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