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When words fail to make explicit what the speaker means, pragmatic inference becomes essential not only because it allows lexical units to be processed in order to have a coherent semantic meaning, but also because it allows to deduce the implicit meaning from the whole context in correlation with the linguistic and cultural background of the speaker. Also, pragmatic inference is based on both associative and controlled construction processes; the first are doomed to fix the propositional meaning from the semantic content, the second propose a completely pragmatic meaning which goes beyond the semantic meaning to access the speaker's intention. In this article, we will highlight the architecture of pragmatic meaning through controlled and automatic processes. For this purpose, we will review the theoretical contributions on this subject, while proposing an analytical path of correlated theoretical data.

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