# Convention over logic: Limits of implicature

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The piece uses an anomalous newspaper reference to suspects to show how journalistic convention can override ordinary pragmatic implicature.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 October 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 14 October 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: pragmatics, journalism, semantics.

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