Linguistics & Language · Semantics & Pragmatics
A topic within Semantics & Pragmatics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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H. P. Grice
Argues that much of what a sentence conveys is not said but implied, derivable from an assumption that speakers are being cooperative and a small set of maxims they can be seen to flout.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Deirdre Wilson & Dan Sperber
Argues, in the authors' own restatement of their theory, that a single principle — that an utterance creates an expectation of being worth the hearer's processing effort — replaces Grice's separate maxims in explaining how hearers recover what a speaker implies.