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Levinson, Stephen C. 2000. Presumptive Meanings. The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature. MIT Press. xxiii + 480 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
anaphora | conversational implicature | interpretation | meaning | pragmatics | semantics1 | syntax1
Person as a subject
Grice, P.H.
ISBN
0-262-62130-4

Annotation

This book develops a theory of presumptive meanings (default interpretations) for a subclass of pragmatic inferences called generalized conversational implicatures, with special reference to the interface between semantics/pragmatics and syntax/pragmatics.

Reviewed by

Capone, Alessandro. 2001. Review of $Presumptive Meanings. The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature.
Bultinck, Bert. 2002. Review of $Presumptive Meanings. The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature.
Capone, Alessandro. 2001. Review of $Presumptive Meanings. The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature.