Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from a

A comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics.

Offers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.

This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much