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table purpose is evident.)
(3) and (4a) are a little harder to explain. What prompts us to infer from (3)
that Martha smiled because she saw the Education School burning is probably
some combination of the Maxim of Relevance with our knowledge of the
effects of burning, of Martha's likely attitude toward schools of education,
and of the connection between desire-satisfaction and facial musculature.
(4a) may have to do with some deep narratological assumption. Such mat-
ters, and the otherwise dangerously vague notion of "relevance" generally,
have been investigated in some depth by Sperber and Wilson (1986), a work
that departs from Grice in some ways and has spawned a new approach to
implicative relations; see below.
Grice mentions that one can also generate an implicature by flouting a
conversational maxim, that is, by violating it blatantly. My favorite Gricean
example (paraphrased from pp. 556):
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