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Grice on Meaning and Implicature

Non-natural meaning, the conversational maxims, and the tests that sort implicature from content

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Will definenon-natural meaningmaxims of conversationcancellabilityscalar implicaturegeneralized conversational implicature
Assumesspeaker meaningconversational implicaturecooperative principle

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