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and ready to work. (p &tq, +>p plus q)
b. She put on her clothes and left
the house. (p & q, +> q after p}
Because of the different implicatures, the two parts of [26a. ] can be reversed with little
difference in meaning, but there is a big change in meaning if the two parts of [26b. ] are
reversed.
For many linguists, the notion of 'implicature' is one of the central concepts in pragmatics. An
implicature is certainly a prime example of more being communicated than is said. For those
same linguists, another central concept in pragmatics is the observation that utterances
perform actions, generally known as 'speech acts'.
