The Logic of Conventional Implicatures - Christopher Potts

The Logic of Conventional Implicatures

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927382-9 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
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 intuitively compositional, and it minimally extends a familiar kind of intensional logic, thereby providing an adaptable, highly useful tool for semantic analysis. The result is a linguistic theory that is accessible not only to linguists of all stripes, but also philosophers of language, logicians, and computer scientists who have linguistic applications in mind.

Christopher Potts is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2003.

1. Introduction ; 2. A Preliminary Case for Conventional Implicatures ; 3. A Logic for Conventional Implicatures ; 4. Supplements ; 5. Expressive Content ; 6. The Supplement Relation: A Syntactic Analysis ; 7. A Look Outside Grice's Definition ; Appendix ; Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2005
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics ; 7
Zusatzinfo numerous line drawings and mathematical examples
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 163 x 242 mm
Gewicht 540 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-927382-0 / 0199273820
ISBN-13 978-0-19-927382-9 / 9780199273829
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