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Publication details [#57403]

Moeschler, Jacques. 2013. Is a speaker-based pragmatics possible? Or how can a hearer infer a speaker's commitment? Journal of Pragmatics 48 (1) : 84–97.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explicature | pragmatic inference | semantic interpretation | speaker | truthfulness

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that the strength and accessibility of semantic and pragmatic inferences, drawn from speakers' utterances, define speakers' commitment. To assure an accurate definition of this strength and accessibility, truth-values are given for explicature, implicature, presupposition and entailment.