The logic of conventional implicatures /

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This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original...

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Potts, Christopher
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2005.
Zusammenfassung:
This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under-studied areas of natural language: supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (e.g., honorifics, epithets). The account of both depends on a theory in which sentence meanings can be multidimensional. The theory is logically and intuitivel
Umfang:
1 online resource (259 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Cruz 2003.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and indexes.
ISBN:
0-19-927383-9
1-280-84394-2
9786610843947
1-4294-9302-X
0-19-153434-X
Schlagworte:
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Semantics.
Implication (Logic)
Language and languages > Philosophy.
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