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generalized conversational implicature: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

default inferences that arise from the form of an utterance in ordinary contexts unless something blocks them, guided by quantity, informativeness and manner heuristics.

In pragmatics, generalized conversational implicature refers to default inferences that arise from the form of an utterance in ordinary contexts unless something blocks them, guided by quantity, informativeness and manner heuristics. This meaning comes from Levinson (2000) in Presumptive Meanings.[1]

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References

Levinson, S. C. (2000). Presumptive Meanings. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/5526.001.0001

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