Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
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Conversational <strong>implicatures</strong> are:derived from:an utterance made by a speaker S (“what S has said”)+ the assumption that S is trying to be cooperative.cancellable:B: There is a garage around the corner, but I’m not sure it isopen.non-linguistic: they are licensed by general principles ofrational cooperative behaviour.Methodological corollary:☞ All else being equal, an explanation in terms ofconversational implicature is better than any alternativeexplanation in linguistic terms.<strong>Quantity</strong> <strong>implicatures</strong>
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