Experimental Pragmatics

How does a listener understand a sarcastic ''That was a wonderful speech'' when the words point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret ''Some cabs are yellow'' as ''Not all cabs are yellow'' when the meaning of ''some'' is compatible with ''all''? Pragmatics aims to explain how listeners draw out a speaker''s meaning from utterances, an astonishing feat when one cons...