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date: 23 January 2021

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Since its inception, the classical Gricean paradigm has encouraged numerous refinements, reinterpretations, and reconstructions, giving rise to various neo-Gricean enterprises. This article outlines the neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature and assesses the role it plays in effecting a radical simplification of the lexicon, semantics and syntax in linguistic theory.

Keywords: conversational implicature, classical Gricean pragmatics, neo-Gricean pragmatics, lexical pragmatics, pragmatics-semantics interface, anaphora, binding, pragmatics-syntax interface

Yan Huang

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has previously taught linguistics at the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. His main research interests are in pragmatics, semantics and syntax, especially the pragmatics–semantics interface and the pragmatics–syntax interface. His published work includes The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (Cambridge University Press, 1994, re-issued 2007), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (Oxford University Press, 2000), and Pragmatics (Oxford University Press, 2007). He has also published a number of articles and reviews in leading international journals of linguistics.

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