Logic, meaning and conversation: semantical underdeterminacy, implicature, and their interface
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmaticsa philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts. Here, Atlas develops the...
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- ISBN13 9780195133004
- ISBN10 0195133005
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 284
- Año de Edición 2005
- Encuadernación Tela
Logic, meaning and conversation: semantical underdeterminacy, implicature, and their interface
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmaticsa philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts. Here, Atlas develops the...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmaticsa 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. Atlas then discusses consequences of his theory of the Interface for the distinction between metaphorical and literal language, for Grice's account of meaning, for the Analytic/Synthetic distinction, for Meaning Holism, and for Formal Semantics of Natural Language. This book makes an important contribution to the philosophy of language and will appeal to philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists.