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Review published In: The Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics: Functional perspectives
Edited by William B. McGregor
[Functions of Language 9:2] 2003
► pp. 311–325

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Stephen C. Levinson. Presumptive meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000. xxiii + 480 pp. ISBN 0 262 12218 9

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Published online: 10 July 2003
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