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
Book review

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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| University of Antwerpp
Published online: 10 July 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.9.2.09bul
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