16.1355, Books: Philosophy of Lang/Semantics: Potts

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Date: 27-Apr-2005
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: The Logic of Conventional Implicatures: Potts 

	
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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:25:41
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: The Logic of Conventional Implicatures: Potts 
 



Title: The Logic of Conventional Implicatures 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics No. 7  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927383-9 


Author: Christopher Potts, University of Massachusetts

Hardback: ISBN: 0199273820 Pages: 258 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199273839 Pages: 258 Price: U.K. £ 21.99


Abstract:

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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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