Explicit Communication

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 JOSAe 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 Universite Paris 4, Sorbonne, France MANUEL GARCAiA-CARPINTERO is Professor at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona, Spain MANUEL HERN NDEZ IGLESIAS is Professor at the University of Murcia, Spain FERNANDO MARTAiNEZ-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 FRANAaOIS 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 AGUSTAiN VICENTE is Research Lecturer at the Ikerbasque Foundation for Science/ University of the Basque Country, Spain BEGO A VICENTE is Senior Lecturer in Pragmatics at the University of the Basque Country, Spain

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.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.