Pragmatic enrichment as coherence raising
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Pragmatic enrichment
The phrase "pragmatic enrichment" is sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to the process in virtue of which the content conveyed by an utterance comes to include all sorts of elements which are contextually implied without being part of what the utterance literally means. In his class notes "Pragmatic Enrichment : Introduction by Examples," Chris Potts gives examples like the following: (1)...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Studies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0031-8116,1573-0883
DOI: 10.1007/s11098-013-0221-8