A new look at literal meaning in understanding what is said and implicated

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Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting (2008, background): “This has been developed in subsequent studies of the processes through which indirect request forms are understood (e.g., Clark, 1979; Clark & Schunk, 1980; Francik & Clark, 1985; Gibbs, 2002).”
On my mind: thoughts about salience, context and figurative language from a second language perspective (2006, background): “The traditional linguistic approach claims that in most people’s minds it is the literal meaning from which all other meanings derive (see Gibbs, 2002).”
Expecting Irony: Context Versus Salience-Based Effects (2007, background): “Although lexical decisions to literally related probes could be associated with lexical entries only, irony-related probes must have been associated with higher-level interpretations (Gibbs, 2002, p. 468).”