Logic, Meaning, and Conversation: Semantical Underdeterminacy, Implicature, and Their Interface

✍ Scribed by Jay David Atlas

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 18
1 Semantical Underdeterminacy......Page 24
2 Grice’s Theory of Conversational Inference: A Critical Exposition......Page 66
3 The Rise of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics......Page 101
4 The Post-Gricean Theory of Presupposition......Page 139
5 Assertibility Conditions, Implicature, and the Question of Semantic Holism: Almost but Not Quite......Page 170
6 The Third Linguistic Turn and the Inscrutability of Literal Sense......Page 206
Appendix 1 On G. E. Moore's Term 'Imply'......Page 246
Appendix 2 On Hitzeman (1992) on 'Almost'......Page 252
Appendix 3 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Cleft Sentences......Page 255
Appendix 4 A Note on Notation......Page 269
Bibliography......Page 274
A......Page 294
C......Page 295
E......Page 297
H......Page 298
I......Page 299
M......Page 300
N......Page 301
P......Page 302
R......Page 303
T......Page 304
Z......Page 305

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика;