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Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this framework with detailed descriptions of our everyday practices of language use. While the results should be highly relevant to pragmatics, the investigation …
What is the relationship between the meaning of a sentence, our abilities of inference, and the practical use of the sentence in everyday circumstances? The answer from pragmatics, which is scrutinized in this work, is that meaning and inference guide our practical use of langua…