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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 21] 2018
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Truth-conditional pragmatics

 | University of Geneva
Published online: 6 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.21.tru3
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Gricean pragmatics and truth-conditional meaning
  • 3.Neo-Gricean pragmatics and the division of linguistic labour
    • 3.1Horn’s Q and R principles
      • 3.1.1The division of linguistic labour
      • 3.1.2What is communicated
    • 3.2Levinson’s heuristics
      • 3.2.1Grice’s circle and its solution
      • 3.2.2Counter-examples
  • 4.Post-Gricean pragmatics, implicature and explicature
    • 4.1The domain of explicature
    • 4.2The limits of implicatures
    • 4.3The relation between semantics and pragmatics
      • 4.3.1Lexical meaning and pragmatics
      • 4.3.2Procedural meaning
      • 4.3.3Synthesis
  • 5.Truth-conditional pragmatics
  • 6.Conclusion: The semantics-pragmatics interface revisited
  • Acknowledgment
  • References
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