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“The association of our word flows and our psychological attitudes is fixed by us as an outflow from our having learned to use our language for descriptive purposes to describe the world, so the attitudes which, when speaking spontaneously and yet nonarbitrarily, we assign as causes or effects of our word flows have to be accepted as properly occupying that position” (142-143)
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Adrian Buck
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"I broke a finger yesterday" - conversational implicature = my finger, absence of person, cf Hungarian. Does each language have its own set of conversational implicatures?
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