Relevance Theory and the Saying / Implicating Distinction Robyn
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Relevance Theory and the saying/implicating distinction
A distinction between saying and implicating has held a central place in pragmatic s since Grice, with ‘what is said’ usually equated with the (context-relative) semantic content of an utterance. In relevance theory, a distinction is made between two kinds of communicated assumptions, explicatures and implicatures, with explicatures defined as pragmatic developments of encoded linguistic meanin...
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