What Is Said and What Is Not The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface |
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| Editor:
| Penco, Carlo
Domaneschi, Filippo |
| Series title: | Lecture Notes Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57586-667-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit communication; the idea of the logical form of our assertions; the notion of conventional meaning; the phenomenon of
deixis, which refers to when an utterance require context in order...
More DescriptionThis volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said," the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between semantics and pragmatics; the concept of implicit communication; the idea of the logical form of our assertions; the notion of conventional meaning; the phenomenon of deixis, which refers to when an utterance require context in order to be understood fully; the treatment of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes.