In a theory of meaning based on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics, it is crucial to distinguish between what a sentence means and what a speaker intends to convey by uttering it. Since Paul Grice’s seminal work, the distinction between sentence or literal meaning and speaker meaning is quite uncontroversial among both linguists and philosophers of language. With sentence meaning, one refers to the content encoded in the words a speaker uses to utter a grammatically correct sentence, while speaker meaning is the content the speaker intends to convey by uttering a sentence in order to achieve a certain goal. Sentence meaning and speaker meaning coincide whenever the speaker intends to convey exactly the content encoded in the words used to utter a sentence. However, language users often intend to convey contents that differ from what the sentences they utter literally mean.