Memory for the Pragmatic Implications of Sentences. Technical Report No. 65 / William F. Brewer.

A sentence "pragmatically implies" another sentence when information in the first sentence leads the hearer to expect something that is neither explicitly stated nor necessarily implied by the original sentence. Thus, the sentence "The safe-cracker put the match to the fuse" prag...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Brewer, William F.
Corporate Authors:	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:	College Students. Memory. Pragmatics. Psychological Studies. Reading Research. Recall (Psychology) Semantics. Sentences.