During a tense negotiation, a negotiator subtly hints at potential concessions without explicitly stating them. Which mechanism facilitates the other party's accurate interpretation of these implied offers?

💡 Explanation

Pragmatic inference enables understanding beyond literal meaning, because listeners deduce intended meanings through shared knowledge and context. Therefore, indirect offers are understood via implicature, rather than semantic compositionality which deals with literal meaning or syntactic parsing which handles sentence structure.

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