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Publication details [#58783]

Sztencel, Magdalena. 2014. Conditionality in individual minds: An argument for a wholly pragmatic approach to utterance interpretation. Lingua 152 : 81–97.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interpretation | pragmatic inference | pragmatics | thought | utterance, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study proposes that utterance interpretation is an entirely pragmatic inferential process. It demonstrates that material -like all sorts of- conditionality, is situated in pragmatically deduced holistic reflection, thus not in any presumed linguistic semantics.