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The Logic of Conventional Implicatures Christopher Potts (University of Massachusetts)

The Logic of Conventional Implicatures By Christopher Potts (University of Massachusetts)

The Logic of Conventional Implicatures by Christopher Potts (University of Massachusetts)


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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 many redefinitions. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two areas of natural language: supplements and expressives.

The Logic of Conventional Implicatures Summary

The Logic of Conventional Implicatures by Christopher Potts (University of Massachusetts)

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.

The Logic of Conventional Implicatures Reviews

a virtuosic blend of astute descriptive observations and technically sophisticated formulations, * Kent Bach, Journal of Linguistics *
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures, by Christopher Potts, which I consider one of the highlights of 2005, presents an ingenious new theory for describing the semantic interpretation of sentences that are said to contain 'conventional implicatures' (CIs). * The Year's Work in English Studies *

About Christopher Potts (University of Massachusetts)

Christopher Potts is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2003.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. A Preliminary Case for Conventional Implicatures ; 3. A Logic for Conventional Implicatures ; 4. Supplements ; 5. Expressive Content ; 6. The Supplement Relation: A Syntactic Analysis ; 7. A Look Outside Grice's Definition ; Appendix ; Bibliography

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GOR011495160
9780199273836
0199273839
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures by Christopher Potts (University of Massachusetts)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
2004-12-09
264
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