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8 produkter
Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference
An Ideational Semantics
Inbunden, 2005
3040 kr
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Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference extends Wayne Davis's groundbreaking work on the foundations of semantics. Davis revives the classical doctrine that meaning consists in the expression of ideas, and advances the expression theory by showing how it can account for standard proper names, and the …
Implicature
Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its content). Gricean theory claims that conversational implicatures can be explained and predicted using general psycho-social principles. This theory has …
Meaning, Expression and Thought
Häftad, 2007
846 kr
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This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of …
Meaning, Expression and Thought
Inbunden, 2002
2329 kr
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This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of …
Implicature
Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory
Av Wayne A. Davis, Ernest Sosa
Inbunden, 1998
1677 kr
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H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its content). Gricean theory claims that conversational implicatures can be explained and predicted using general psycho-social principles. This theory has …
Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
Inbunden, 2016
569 kr
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The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially …
Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
E-bok, 2016
755 kr
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The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially …
Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially …
