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Review of The Logic of Conventional Implicatures by Chris Potts.

We review Potts’ influential book on the semantics of conventional implicature (CI), offering an explication of his technical apparatus and drawing out the proposal’s implications, focusing on the class of CIs he calls supplements. While we applaud many facets of this work, we argue that careful con...

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Published in:Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 707 - 750
Main Authors: Amaral, Patricia, Roberts, Craige, Smith, E.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2007
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Logic of Conventional Implicatures, The (Book)
Potts, Chris
Semantics (Philosophy)
Comparative linguistics
Pragmatics
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