Logic, Meaning, and Conversation
Semantical Underdeterminacy, Implicature, and Their Interface
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 2005
305 pages
978-0-19-535094-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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Jay David Atlas
Logic, Meaning, and Conversation
Semantical Underdeterminacy, Implicature, and their Interface
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Jay David Atlas is Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He is the author of Philosophy Without Ambiguity (OUP 1989).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Semantical Underdeterminacy
- 2 Grice's Theory of Conversational Inference: A Critical Exposition
- 3 The Rise of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics
- 4 The Post-Gricean Theory of Presupposition
- 5 Assertibility Conditions, Implicature, and the Question of Semantic Holism: Almost but Not Quite
- 6 The Third Linguistic Turn and the Inscrutability of Literal Sense
- Appendix 1 On G. E. Moore's Term 'Imply'
- Appendix 2 On Hitzeman (1992) on 'Almost'
- Appendix 3 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Cleft Sentences
- Appendix 4 A Note on Notation
- Bibliography
- Index
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