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Wharton, Tim. 2003. Natural Pragmatics and Natural Codes. Mind & Language 18 (5) : 447–477.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0268-1064

Annotation

This paper suggests that pragmatics is best seen as a theory of intentional verbal communication rather than a theory of non-natural meaning. It also argues that natural codes do not fit easily into Grice's distinction between natural and non-natural meaning.