Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

Contents: What Is Pragmatics, and Why Do I Need to Know, Anyway? Indexicals and Anaphora: Contextually Identifiable Indeterminacies of Reference. Reference and Indeterminacy of Sense. Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Interpreting the Packaging of Propositional Content. Implicature. Pragmatics and Syntax. Conversational Interaction. Perspective.