ABSTRACT
Two widely held assumptions in contemporary discussions of meaning are, first, that a distinction deserves to be drawn between what sentences of natural languages mean and what speakers of those languages mean by uttering those sentences; and, second, that Grice’s theory of conversational implicature (Grice 1975, 1978, 1989) provides an appropriate framework for analysing the various kinds of meaning which are instances of speaker meaning rather than of sentence meaning.
