Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Mar., 1993), pp. 179-196 (18 pages) Ethicists have long observed that unethical communication may result from texts that contain no overt falsehoods but are ...

Conversational implicatures are easy to grasp for the most part. But it is another matter to give a rational reconstruction of how they are grasped. We argue that Grice's attempt to do this fails. We ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...