Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

by Richard Breheny, K. Petrus (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781349367733
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Edition description:	1st ed. 2010
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

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

Table 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