"congenitally" - 1 õppematerjal

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distance away" (far enough that it would take contextually considerable time to get there). Sentence (6) above ("She put down the letter, shed a single tear, and walked slowly but steadily to the cliff's edge; then she jumped") might be thought to be a case of saturation, if it is argued that "jumped" logically expresses a relation between an agent and a location-plus-direction. More likely, it is a case of free enrichment. Congenitally literal-minded philosophers will be skeptical of "free enrich- ment," and want to deny that speakers of the foregoing sentences actually said that they had eaten lunch in particular, or that it is raining here in Chapel Hill, or that it would take a good deal of time to get to the building. Such philosophers would hear those "enrichments" as ordinary implicatures.9 But linguists are more likely to be right on this sort of issue. 168 Pragmatics and speech acts Indirect force