What is Said and What is Not: The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Penco, Carlo; Domaneschi, Filippo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575866676 ISBN 13: 9781575866673

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2013

Synopsis

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 an utterance that requires context in order to be fully understood; the treatment of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes.

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About the Author

Carlo Penco is director of the Graduate School in Humanities at the University of Genoa, where Filippo Domaneschi is a graduate student.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575866676
• ISBN 13: 9781575866673
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224