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The Logic of Conventional Implicatures

by Christopher Potts
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 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.

About the Author

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.


Table of Contents

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


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ISBN:
9780199273836
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
12/09/2004
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Series info:
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (Paperback)
Language:
English
Pages:
246
Height:
.59IN
Width:
6.14IN
Series:
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Series Volume:
7
Author:
Christopher Null
Author:
Christopher Potts
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Language and languages
Subject:
Philosophy of Language
Subject:
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Subject:
Linguistics | Semantics, Pragmatics, & Philosophy of Language
Subject:
Linguistics | Semantics, Pragmatics,
Subject:
Linguistics | Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language

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