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

by Jay David Atlas

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195133005
• ISBN13: 9780195133004
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"