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    Supports→The speaker's plan — a hierarchy of intentions — is the primary source of facts that supplement conventional meaning to move from reflexive content to incremental meaning.

    Something beyond conventional meaning must supply the facts that fix reference and resolve ambiguity.

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    In Korta and Perry’s ‘Critical Pragmatics’ (2008, 2011, 2013), the concept of ‘what is said’ is replaced with two concepts. The ‘reflexive’ or ‘utterance-bound content’ and the ‘referential’ or ‘locutionary content’ of an utterance. The ‘utterance-bound content’ is its truth-conditions, as determined by the conventional meanings of the words used and modes of composition, and thus corresponds to the ‘semantically determined content.’ This content will not be the proposition expressed, but rather

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