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		Research Group Communicative Understanding
		Project 2 : Pragmatic Implications
		Project leader: Georg Meggle    Assistant: Christian Plunze
General Information The Projects and their Members Current and Future Activities Activities up to now Project Description Project 1: Reconstructing Speech Act Theory Project 2: Pragmatic Implications Project 3: Speech Act and Interpretation Project 4: Explanatory Coherence Project 5: Computational Dialectics Guests Papers		A great part of our communicative behavior takes place between the explicitly expressed words: It happens implicitly. What we mean is hardly ever exhausted by what we explicitly say. Normally we don't have any difficulties in grasping what the speaker is trying to communicate implicitly. How can we explain this fact? Paul Grice gave the following answer: We grasp the implicit meaning by assuming cooperation on the part of the speaker (especially the observance of certain conversational maxims). And as speakers we rely on this assumption when we expect that our hearers will understand us. This starting point has already proven to be very fruitful for the philosophy of language and linguistic pragmatics. Nevertheless we still do not have a theory in a narrow sense. This situation should be changed by this project. Our main goal is the development of a theory of conversational implicatures, which is embedded in the already developed General Theory of Communication and also in Intention-Based-Semantics. Details
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