The Logic of Conventional Implicatures (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics Book 7) 1st Edition by Christopher Potts (PDF)

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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 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 alinguistic 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.

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⭐Wieder kein Original Oxford University Press Artikel sondern ein Nachdruck aus dem Hause Amazon Fulfillment in Polen. Der Druck ist besonders im Stich minderwertig, die teilweise brüchigen Buchstaben machen das Lesen unangenehm. Eigentlich eine Frechheit, dafür den vollen Preis zu verlangen, ohne dass auf der Produktseite darauf hingewiesen wird.Das Buch an sich ist bahnbrechend, und es ist schade, dass es in einer derartigen Qualität verscherbelt wird.This book, and the dissertation it comes from, caused a lot of excitement in linguistics when they first appeared (well not so long ago). The book takes a phenomenon ignored or swept under the rug for some years, conventional implicature, provides a clean formal theory, and uses the theory to solve some problems in an intuitive way. You can’t ask for more in a formal linguistic work than that.

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