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Direct linkCummins, Chris – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Theoretical and empirical research on quantity implicature has concurred that pragmatically strengthened, richer readings are not available when they are not relevant to the discourse purpose. However, this claim relies on an appeal to a notion of "relevance" that has proved difficult to make precise. In this article I discuss and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Failure, Relevance (Education), Priming
