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Relevance III: general interest(15) A: Where is Wilma?B: She went out to buy a piece of furniture.B’s answer is likely to implicate that he doesn’t know (orcare) what kind of furniture Wilma went out to buy.This information does not seem relevant to the immediatepurpose of the discourse, and it need not be relevant to A’spersonal interests.(Though maybe it is assumed by fiat that anything ofgeneral interest is of interest to the hearer).Quantity implicatures
Relevance III: general interest (cont.)It is possible that conventions (of some kind) decide what is theminimum level of specificity that may be expected.Cf.(16) a. She went out to buy a piece of furniture.b. She went out to buy a sofa.(17) a. I saw an animal on the lawn this morning.b. I saw a dog on the lawn this morning.Quantity implicatures
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