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know, and just look at the utterance in context and try to hit upon clues that
would show an entirely uninitiated hearer what the speaker meant to convey.
It is not easy.
Practitioners of the "relevance" literature (see below) have discovered what
they argue is a new kind of implication, called "explicature," intermediate
between conversational implicature and entailment, in that the explicatum
is cancelable but, if left uncanceled, is counted as said rather than merely
implied--see Carston (1988) and Recanati (1989). An alleged example would
be:
(6) She put down the letter, shed a single tear, and walked slowly but
steadily to the cliff's edge; then she jumped.
That sentence does not strictly entail that its subject jumped off the cliff,
because one could cancel the implication without contradiction, for example
Implicative relations 163
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