For Wednesday 2/2, please read section 11.1.3 (pgs. 258-260) of the Kearns textbook.  The reading addresses so-called “scalar implicatures”, a particularly common type of implicature that arises via the maxim of Quantity.  (Or as Kearns refers to it, the maxim of Informativity.)  Scalar implicatures are a striking illustration of the way that our knowledge of literal meaning (in particular, knowledge of entailment relationships) interact with our knowledge of the Gricean maxims to yield the full communicative import of an utterance.  In Wednesday’s class, we’ll explore this interaction in some detail.