Gricean Pragmatics

Abstract

Since its inception, Gricean pragmatics has revolutionized pragmatic theorizing and has to date remained one of the cornerstones of contemporary thinking in linguistic pragmatics and the philosophy of language. This article undertakes to present and assess a neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature, focusing on the bipartite model developed by Laurence Horn and the tripartite model advanced by Stephen Levinson.