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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Short-cut implicature

From Quinion's World Wide Words, today:

"SHORT CUTS The subtitle of this book by Alexander Humez, Nicholas
Humez and Rob Flynn is "a guide to oaths, ring tones, ransom notes,
famous last words, & other forms of minimalist communication". I
was tempted to make my review suit the subject by reducing it to
"mildly interesting". It's a melange that popularly discusses and
illustrates the semiotics of communication methods such as bank
robbery notes, postcards, wanted posters, billboards, obituaries,
police language, suicide notes, Mountweazels, ghost-words, weasel
words, Sniglets, pre-nups, computer error messages, car vanity
plates, bumper stickers, clothing brand names, telephone answering
machines, and neckties. Some of the discussion strays into areas
that have little connection with brevity, such as the nature of
dictionaries and newspapers.
[Oxford University Press USA, $19.95. ISBN 978-0-19-538913-5.]"

---- in obvious connection with Grice's maxim (supramaxim and two submaxims) pertaining to the category of "Quantitas".

(previously dubbed, "Strength").

To analyse each by each.

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