Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Paul Grice, Philosopher of Language, But More Than That; K.Petrus Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Ordinary Language; S.Chapman Intuition, the Paradigm Case Argument, and the Two Dogmas of Kant'otelianism: Grice's Defense of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Kripke's Defense of Essentialism; J.D.Atlas Grice on Presupposition; A.Bezuidenhout Irregular Negations: Implicature and Idion Theories; W.A.Davis A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicature; M.Simons Speaker Meaning, Conversational Implicature, and Calculability; J.Saul Some Aspects of Reasons and Rationality; J.Baker Showing and Meaning: On How We Make Our Ideas Clear; M.Green Illocution, Perillocution and Communication; K.Petrus Speaker Meaning and the Logic of Communicative Acts; C.Plunze The Total Content of What a Speaker Means; A.Martinich On Three Theories of Implicature: Default Theory, Relevance Theory and Minimalism; E.Borg Contextualism in the Philosophy of Language; N.Kompa WJ-40: Issues in the Investigation of Implicature; L.R.Horn Index

About the author

JAY DAVID ATLAS University of Massachusetts, USA
JUDITH BAKER York University, Canada
ANNE BEZUIDENHOUT University of South Carolina, USA
EMMA BORG University of Reading, UK
SIOBHAN CHAPMAN University of Liverpool, UK
WAYNE A. DAVIS Georgetown University, USA
MITCHELL GREEN University of Virginia, USA
LAURENCE R. HORN Yale University, USA
AL MARTINICH University of Texas at Austin, USA
NIKOLA KOMPA University of Bern, Switzerland
CHRISTIAN PLUNZE University of Frankfurt, Germany
JENNIFER SAUL University of Sheffield, UK
MANDY SIMONS Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Summary

The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Breheny, Klaus Sauerland Petrus
• Assisted by: A Loparo (Editor), Richard Breheny (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), Petrus (Editor), K Petrus (Editor), K. Petrus (Editor), Klaus Petrus (Editor), Sauerland (Editor), Sauerland (Editor), Uli Sauerland (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349367733
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36773-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics; Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; B, Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Semiotics, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics