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Abstract

This chapter explores the relationship between psychological dual-process theories of cognition and pragmatic theories of meaning, focusing on conversational implicatures. Drawing on the distinction between fast, automatic cognitive processes and slow, controlled ones developed by Tversky and Kahneman, the author examines how implicatures are generated and interpreted in everyday communication. The paper contrasts rationalist accounts, which model implicature derivation as controlled inferential reasoning, with coherence-based approaches that emphasize automatic heuristics and discourse-level expectations. Particular attention is paid to scalar implicatures, which are argued to arise, at least in many cases, from fast and automatic processes rather than deliberate reasoning. In the final part, the paper offers an alternative interpretation of the famous Linda problem, suggesting that unnoticed scalar implicatures may influence participants’ probability judgments. The analysis illustrates how integrating insights from psychology and pragmatics can enrich both disciplines and lead to novel explanatory hypotheses.