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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Example of implicature in wiki's entry 'implicature' (term coined by Patrick McBride)

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"How did you like the guest speaker?" with the following utterance:
Well, I’m sure he was speaking English.

"If the speaker is assumed to be following the cooperative principle, in spite of flouting the Maxim of Quantity, then the utterance must have an additional nonliteral meaning, such as: "The content of the speaker’s speech was confusing.""

from wiki, implicature, accessed today.

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