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Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

François Récanati

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Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

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Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

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Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide. Through half a dozen case studies he shows that 'pragmatic modulation' interacts with the grammar-driven process of semantic composition. As a result what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the speaker means.

Key concepts: Utterance, Contextualism, Pragmatics, Linguistics, Sentence, Meaning (existential), Context (archaeology), Semantics (computer science)

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