Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics

by Kempson and Ruth M. Kempson

Book Overview

In this book, first published in 1975, Dr Kempson argues that previous work on presupposition - whether in philosophy or linguistics - has been mistakenly based on a conflation of two different disciplines: semantics, the study of the meanings assigned to the formal system which constitutes a language, and pragmatics, the study of the use of that system in communication. The first part of the book deals generally with the nature of semantics in linguistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521099382
• ISBN13: 9780521099387
• Release Date: July 1975
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"