Meaning in Context and Contextual Meaning: A Perspective on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Applied to Modal Verbs

This paper argues for an approach to pragmatic meaning that hinges on the distinction between truth-conditional meaning and non-truth conditional meaning. While acknowledging that pragmatic processes (like saturation and ‘free pragmatic enrichment’) contribute as much to the recovery of the explicat...

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Main Author: Ilse Depraetere
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2453