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Publication details [#51019]

Schlesinger, Izchak M. and Sharon Hurvitz. 2009. Studying implicit messages: A different approach. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (4) : 738–752.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explicature | implicature | inference | information processing | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study proposes the new notion of pragmatically conveyed message components, at four levels, to mainly explore the nature of implicatures. It also clarifies the boundary between implicatures and inferences.