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referential overspecification: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

tendency of speakers to include more descriptive information than needed to pick out a referent, apparently violating the Gricean quantity maxim.

In pragmatics, referential overspecification refers to tendency of speakers to include more descriptive information than needed to pick out a referent, apparently violating the Gricean quantity maxim. This meaning comes from Engelhardt (2006) in Journal of Memory and Language.[1]

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References

Engelhardt, P., Bailey, K., & Ferreira, F. (2006). Do speakers and listeners observe the Gricean Maxim of Quantity? Journal of Memory and Language, 54(4), 554-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.009

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