What Is Said and What Is Not
The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
9781575866673
9781575866697
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What Is Said and What Is Not
The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
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.
Table of Contents
- What is Said: A Short History in Quotes Carlo Penco, Filippo Domaneschi
- I Semantics First
- What’s What’s Said? Una Stojnic and Ernest Lepore
- Context and Logical Form Jason Stanley
- Surprise Indexicalism Massimiliano Vignolo
- The Lure of Linguistification Kent Bach
- Explicit Performatives Manuel Garcia Carpintero
- II Pragmatics First
- Illocutions in Context Claudia Bianchi
- Metaphor and the Scope Argument Catherine Wearing
- Reference through Mental Files Francois Recanati
- Word Meaning, What is Said and Explicature Robyn Carston
- III Alternatives
- Grice’s Requirements on What is Said Kepa Korta
- Ironically Saying and Implicating Joana Garmendia
- Non Indexical Contextualism John Macfarlane
- On Situationalism: Situations with an Attitude Eros Corazza and Jerom Dokic
- Three Methodological Flaws of Linguistic Pragmatism Michael Devitt
- Direct Discourse, Indirect Discourse and Belief John Perry
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