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Atlas, Jay David and Stephen C. Levinson. 1981. It-clefts, informativeness, and logical form: Radical pragmatics (Revised Standard Version). In Cole, Peter, ed. Radical pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 1–61.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

The authors exemplify one approach to the problem of the relationship between semantics and pragmatics, viz. radical pragmatics. They discuss some problems for the 'standard version' of this approach, and propose some modifications. One of the central aspects of their discussion is the attempt to show that 'presuppositions' can be reduced to matters of entailment and nonconventional conversational inferences.