Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature by Stephen C. Levinson

Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature

Stephen C. Levinson

504 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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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.When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. ...

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