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    Challenges→Discourse relations are part of linguistic knowledge, not merely reflections of cooperative conversation and maxim following or flouting

    Grice's Cooperative Principle already predicts systematic, predictable inferences without positing them as encoded linguistic knowledge.

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    • 1.Grice's maxims explain implicatures through rational communication principles alone, without requiring stored linguistic rules.
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    • 2.Speakers successfully coordinate inferences across novel contexts, suggesting derivation from general reasoning rather than memorized meanings.
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    • 3.The Cooperative Principle parsimoniously unifies diverse inference types under single explanatory framework, reducing theoretical entities needed.
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    • 1.Many conventional implicatures (e.g., 'but' vs 'and') show systematic differences that Grice's maxims alone cannot differentiate or predict.
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    • 2.Children and non-native speakers often fail to derive obvious Gricean implicatures despite possessing general reasoning abilities.
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    • 3.The speed and automaticity of pragmatic inference suggests encoded knowledge rather than on-the-fly derivation from cooperative principles.
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