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Cruse, D. Allan. 1977. The pragmatics of lexical specificity. Journal of Linguistics 13 (2) : 153–164.
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Article in journal
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English

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C. argues that though Grice's cooperative principle is a major determinant of the form and content of utterances used communicatively, it cannot explain all the facts about the choice of a word from a range of lexical items of different levels of specificity (e.g. spaniel, dog and animal) in communicative situations.