What Is Said and What Is Not
Subtitle: The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
Publisher: CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781575866680
Subjects: Linguistics, research
Description: "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 to be understood fully; the treatment of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes. "--