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expectations of relevance (p. 619).
Further: According to Grice's picture, a hearer recovers the utterance's
full literal locutionary or propositional content ("He has said that p,"), and
then proceeds to reason from that combined with the Cooperative Principle.
But relevance theorists point out that, psychologically at least, that cannot
be right. The sentence uttered never itself expresses or "encodes" a complete
proposition. As we have seen, it must always be disambiguated. And its
deictic elements must be assigned referents. These decisions, including the
computation of Harman's function , are also guided by the general cogni-
tive drive for relevance. So there is simultaneous disambiguation, treatment
of deictic elements, and working out of implicatures, with constant tradeoffs
between them.
To the latter three processes, relevance theorists have added further ones
that make for "explicatures" as described above. There is what Recanati