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  1. Pragmatics

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    Foundational Concepts
    The core objective of pragmatics is to bridge the gap between the sentence meaning (what is said) and the speaker meaning (what is intended) Semantics and Pragmatics. This gap is systematically addressed through several key concepts developed primarily within the Anglo-American tradition.
    Implicature and Presupposition

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    When a speaker flouts a maxim (e.g., stating "My supervisor is a damp rag" to flout Quality), the listener attempts to locate a conversational implicature by assuming the speaker is still cooperating at a deeper level.
    Presupposition, conversely, involves background assumptions that must be true for an utterance to be conventionally appropriate. For instance, the sentence, "The King of France is bald," presupposes that there is a King of France [Semantics and Pragmatics](/entries/semantics-a…