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The pragmatics of lexical specificity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

D. A. Cruse
D. A. Cruse
Affiliation:
Department of General Linguistics, University of Manchester
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Mainstream linguists have now begun to take an interest in the way the formal resources of language are put to use by people in communicative situations. A powerful impulse for this awakening interest came from Grice's paper ‘The logic of conversation’; (1975). Grice's work has begun to he examined, criticized, and developed (see, for example, Wilson, 1975; Kempson, 5975), and prospects are now emerging of a much more satisfying and comprehensive picture of language at work in a communicative setting. The present paper is intended as a contribution to this developing field.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , September 1977 , pp. 153 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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