Toolan, Michael (1998) “On Inscribed or Literal Meaning” in Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader (eds.) Roy Harris & George Wolf: 143-158. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.

Literal, Conventional and Utterance Meaning

Searle on literal meaning relative to a background

Compositionalism

The Pragmaticist Tradition

Integrational Linguistics

Prototype

Concluding Remarks

The communicative event postulated by Wittgenstein fulfills the three criteria for the speech act to be ironical: the proposition is inappropriate (‘false’), it was ‘meant’ to be inappropriate, thus there is the requisition intention, and it is ‘known’ to be inappropriate – there is no mention of deceit, as there would be if the speaker was simply lying. – 160