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Stampe, Dennis W. 1981. Pragmatics and causal theoretic aspects of semantics. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 683–712.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

causality | pragmatic inference | pragmatic theory | truth-conditional semantics

Annotation

Pragmatics is presented as the study of certain regularities in the causation of utterances underlying the practical functions they serve. Pragmatic inference is causal inference, and therefore pragmatic information has to be inserted into truth-conditional semantics.