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Publication details [#4831]

Hofmann, Thomas Ron. 1980. How to ignore pragmatics and get away with it, almost. Communication and Cognition 13 (4) : 299–315.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

delimitation of pragmatics | implication | mental representation | presupposition | reference

Annotation

The traditional distinction between semantics and pragmatics is said to be pointless. Only a mental representation for the meaning of utterances is interesting for linguistics. Reference, presupposition and pragmatic implication are discussed.