Truth-conditional pragmatics
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Gricean pragmatics and truth-conditional meaning
- 3.Neo-Gricean pragmatics and the division of linguistic labour
- 3.1Horn’s Q and R principles
- 3.1.1The division of linguistic labour
- 3.1.2What is communicated
- 3.2Levinson’s heuristics
- 3.2.1Grice’s circle and its solution
- 3.2.2Counter-examples
- 4.Post-Gricean pragmatics, implicature and explicature
- 4.1The domain of explicature
- 4.2The limits of implicatures
- 4.3The relation between semantics and pragmatics
- 4.3.1Lexical meaning and pragmatics
- 4.3.2Procedural meaning
- 4.3.3Synthesis
- 5.Truth-conditional pragmatics
- 6.Conclusion: The semantics-pragmatics interface revisited
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Acknowledgment
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