Pragmatic inferences are essential to understanding speakers' communicative intentions. I
here revisit the typology of pragmatic inferences and minimally revise it by incorporating into …

This short article takes up the question: How do we derive meaning from others' utterances?
Within linguistic pragmatics, a first reply to this question was provided by Grice's account of …

As is known, Grice's philosophical conception of conversational implicature has been a
source of inspiration for much work in pragmatics at the borders between philosophy of …

The interdisciplinary study of pragmatics has long held that a principled distinction exists
between what speakers say and what they conversationally mean or implicate. According to …

Conversational implicatures (i) are implied by the speaker in making an utterance;(ii) are
part of the content of the utterance, but (iii) do not contribute to direct (or explicit) utterance …

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding,
integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades …

Relevance theorists and others have argued that what a speaker 'says' is determined by
contextual factors to a greater extent than allowed for by Grice. This dispute has …

This article argues that what Grice termed 'particularized conversational implicatures' can be
divided into two types. In some cases, it is possible to reconstruct the inference from the …

In this chapter we focus on inferences that count as part of the Relevance-theoretic concept
of 'explicature'. We propose to test the degree of commitment the speaker has regarding …

GRICE DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN generalized and particularized conversational
implicatures. The latter are “cases in which an implicature is carried by saying that p on a …