Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and The Explicature/Implicature Distinction

Abstract

Communication is not a simple matter of coding and decoding as certain Cartesian theories of language have claimed. Relevance Theory (RT) carefully argues that inference is the basis of all communication, and of all aspects of linguistic communication (Sperber & Wilson 1986). Such inferences conform to certain expectations that are created by communication. The

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