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If S1 conventionally implicates S2 and S2 is false, then S1 is misworded, even if not false. A further type of "pragmatic presupposition" not already mentioned here might be called "illocutionary implication": The performing of a speech act in some sense implies the satisfaction of its distinctive felicity conditions. For example, my promising to return your champagne glasses implies that I intend to return them, and does so noncancelably (I cannot add, " . . . but don't get me wrong; I have no intention of returning them"). To our penalty catalogue, we might add that if someone utters S1, thereby performing a speech act having S2 as a distinctive felicity condition, and S2 is false, then the speech act is infelicitous in a distinctively illocutionary way. Relevance Theory Relevance theorists (originally Sperber and Wilson 1986; see especially also Carston 2002) began by developing Grice's model, but their program is now