‘I just said It, I didn’t mean anything:’ Culture and Pragmatic Inference in Interpersonal Communication
Socio-cultural practices and the economy of expression, which generally characterise human communication, significantly widen the gap between linguistic meaning and speaker’s meaning. What the hearer does is to construct hypotheses about the speaker’s meaning based on contextual...
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University of Ghana
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Legon Journal of the Humanities |
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