# Presumptive Meanings

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- Book: [Presumptive Meanings](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-c-levinson/presumptive-meanings) ([Presumptive Meanings.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-c-levinson/presumptive-meanings.md))
- Authors: [Stephen C. Levinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-c-levinson)
- Publisher: bradford_books
- ISBN: 978-02-6262-130-4
- Pages: 504
- Published: 2000-04-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean...