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Abstract Acknowledgements CHAPTER I: THE DOMAIN OF PRAGMATICS 1.1 The Semantics - Pragmatics Distinction 1.2 Indexical Semantics 1.3 Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Knowledge 1.4 Pragmatics and the Competence - Performance Distinction 1.5 Grice's Theory of Conversation 1.6 The Problem of Context Selection: Mutual Knowledge Frameworks CHAPTER 2: RELEVANCE AND COMMUNICATION 2.1 Grice's Calculability Requirement 2.2 Deduction in a Theory of Utterance Interpretation 2.3 Deduction and Contextual Modification 2.4 The Principle of Relevance 2.5 Implicature CHAPTER 3: LINGUISTIC FORM AND PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION 3.1 Conventional Implicature 3.2 `Therefore' and `After All' 3.3 `So' 3.4 `Moreover' and `Furthermore' 3.5 Interaction with Focus: `also' CHAPTER 4: RELEVANCE AND COHERENCE: DISCOURSE CONNECTIVES 4.1 Coherence in Discourse 4.2 Coherence and Content: The Interpretation of Conjoined Utterances 4.3 Coherence and Relevance: Inferential Connections 4.4 `But': Denial and Conjunction 4.5 `But': Contrast and Conjunction 4.6 Concluding Remarks Notes References.