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Wright, Richard A. 1975. Meaning(nn) and conversational implicature. In Cole, Peter and Jerry L. Morgan, eds. Syntax and semantics, 3: Speech acts. Academic Press. pp. 363–382.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Person as a subject

Annotation

W. contends that Grice's notion of non-natural meaning (Meaningnn) is confused and incorrect if applied to non-linguistic communication acts. He proposes a revised notion of meaning nn and argues that conversational implicature is based on it.