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    It is not the case that For Grice, speaker meaning is systematically derivable from sentence meaning plus contextual principles, making them aspects of one unified phenomenon.

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    • 1.Speakers routinely mean something completely opposite to sentence meaning (irony, sarcasm), showing speaker meaning cannot be derived from sentence meaning alone.
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    • 2.Contextual principles are too underdetermined to systematically derive speaker meaning; the same context licenses multiple incompatible interpretations.
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    • 3.Speaker meaning involves non-linguistic intentions (emotional, political) that exceed what sentence meaning plus context can compositionally generate.
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    • 1.Grice's distinction between natural and non-natural meaning shows how utterances encode intentions that hearers reliably recognize through conventional rules.
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    • 2.Speaker meaning systematically depends on sentence meaning: changing word choice changes what speakers can communicate, proving their interdependence.
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    • 3.Context functions as a compositional operator: just as grammar combines words into sentences, contextual principles combine sentences into speaker intentions.
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