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Reference
Bezuidenhout, A. & Cutting, J. C. (2002). Literal meaning, minimal propositions and pragmatic processing. Journal of Pragmatics, 34, 433-356.
Abstract
Examined whether the more minimal propositions for the role of what is said play a role in utterance understanding. Three pragmatic processing models, which embody the assumptions of the rival philosophical views, including those of P. Grice (1989) on generalized conversational implicatures, are postulated. The results of 4 experiments (237 Ss) designed to test the predictions of these processing models are reported. The results lend some initial support to a model in which minimal and contextually enriched (sentence) interpretations are constructed in parallel, with a bias towards the enriched interpretations. However, the final section of the paper suggests a number of ways in which the issue of the role of minimal propositions is still viewed as open for empirical exploration.
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