Logic, meaning, and conversation : semantical underdeterminacy, implicature, and their interface / Jay David Atlas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atlas, Jay David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Linguistics--Philosophy.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Semantical underdeterminacy, implicature, and their interface

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics - a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts.

Contents:

1 Semantical Underdeterminacy; 2 Grice's Theory of Conversational Inference: A Critical Exposition; 3 The Rise of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics; 4 The Post-Gricean Theory of Presupposition; 5 Assertibility Conditions, Implicature, and the Question of Semantic Holism: Almost but Not Quite; 6 The Third Linguistic Turn and the Inscrutability of Literal Sense; Appendix 1 On G.E. Moore's Term 'Imply'; Appendix 2 On Hitzeman (1992) on 'Almost'; Appendix 3 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Cleft Sentences; Appendix 4 A Note on Notation; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-272) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-70425-X

0-19-535094-4

1-4237-1994-8

OCLC:

466426575