This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic under-determinacy, the explicit/implicit divide and also to the construction or recruitment of concepts in on-line utterance comprehension.

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KENT BACH is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA NOEL BURTON-ROBERTS is Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK ROBYN CARSTON is Professor of Linguistics at the University College, London, UK JOSÉ E. CHAVES is former Research Scholar at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He works on pragmatics and its relationship with semantics and is member of the Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group (Logos) PHILIPPE DE BRABANTER teaches English Linguistics at Université Paris 4, Sorbonne, France MANUEL GARCÍA-CARPINTERO is Professor at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona, Spain MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ IGLESIAS is Professor at the University of Murcia, Spain FERNANDO MARTÍNEZ-MANRIQUE is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Granada, Spain ADRIAN PILKINGTON formerly taught at the University of London Institute in Paris, France FRANÇOIS RECANATI is a Research Fellow at CNRS, France and a Professorial Fellow at EHESS and the University of St Andrews BARRY C. SMITH is Senior Lecturer at the School of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK AGUSTÍN VICENTE is Research Lecturer at the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science/ University of the Basque Country, Spain BEGOÑA VICENTE is Senior Lecturer in Pragmatics at the University of the Basque Country, Spain

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Foreword and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Explicit Communication and Relevance Theory Pragmatics; E.Romero & B.Soria Pragmatics and Logical Form; F.Recanati On Relevance Theory's Atomistic Commitments; A.Vicente & F.Martínez-Manrique The Role of Pragmatic Inferencing in Compositional Semantics; B.Vicente Linguistic Meaning and Propositional Content; M.García-Carpintero What we Mean, What we Think we Mean, and How Language Surprises us; B.C.Smith Explicature, What is Said and Gricean Factorization Criteria; J.E.Chaves Impliciture vs Explicature: What's the Difference?; K.Bach Cancellation and Intention; N.Burton-Roberts Metaphor Comprehension: Some Questions for Current Accounts in Relevance Theory; A.Pilkington Ad Hoc Concepts and Metaphor; M.Hernández Iglesias Phrasal Pragmatics in Robyn Carston's Programme; E.Romero & B.Soria Uttering Sentences Made up of Words and Gestures; P.De Brabanter Explicit Communication and `Free´Pragmatic Enrichment; R.Carston Name Index Subject Index