Explicit Import Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of Explicatures

The main goal of this paper is to argue that the way explicitly communicated content approached in leading pragmatic theories flawed, since it posited explicature generation involves enrichment decoded logical form utterance full propositionality. This kind enhancement postulated underlie appears be theoretically inadequate and not correspond psychological reality interpretation. Drawing on earlier critique extant positions explicatures, mainly by Borg (2016) Jary (2016), I add further arguments against modelling import verbal communication frameworks do. It emphasized cognitively plausible theory meaning compromised at cost theory-internal concerns.