Logic, Meaning, and Conversation: Semantical Underdeterminacy, Implicature, and Their Interface
Authors:Atlas, Jay D
Publication Information:Oxford: Oxford Univ Pr; 2005.
Document Type:Monograph
Subjects:CONVERSATION
IMPLICATION
INDETERMINACY
LANGUAGE
MEANING
SEMANTICS
Abstract:This fresh 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. Here Atlas develops the contrast between verbal ambiguity and verbal generality; works out a detailed theory of conversational inference using the work of Paul Grice on implicature as a starting point; and gives an account of their interface as an example of the relationship between Chomsky's internalist semantics and language performance. (publisher, edited)
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