Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
Quantity implicatures
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CancellabilityCancellability is a useful heuristic for testing if a giveninference might be a conversational implicature.But #1: Conversational <strong>implicatures</strong> aren’t the only kindof cancellable inferences:(1) Harry doesn’t know he got promoted.(2) Harry doesn’t know he got promoted, because hedidn’t: it was just a rumour.But #2: “Cancellability” is a bit of a misnomer.<strong>Quantity</strong> <strong>implicatures</strong>