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MEANING AND ANALYSIS: NEW ESSAYS ON GRICE
Edited by Klaus Petrus
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
 
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Pub date: Aug 2010
256 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
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Description
In this book, linguists and philosophers combine to offer a unique insight not only into Grice's contribution to philosophy of language, but on his theories of natural and non-natural meaning, implicatures and the semantic-pragmatic distinction.

Author Bio
KLAUS PETRUS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction--K.Petrus
H. Paul Grice's Defense of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Its Unintended Historical Consequences in Twentieth Century Analytical Philosophy--J.Atlas
Paul Grice and the Philosopher of Ordinary Language--S.Chapman
Some Aspects on Reasons and Retionality--J.Baker
The Total Content of What a Speaker Means--A.Martinich
Showing and Meaning--M.Green
Communicative Acts - With and Without Understanding--C.Plunze
Perillocutionary Acts. A Gricean Approach--K.Petrus
William James + 40: Issues in the Investigation of Implicature--L.Horn
Grice on Presupposition--A.Bezuidenhout
Irregular Negations: Implicature and Idiom Theories--W.Davis
Grice's Calculability Criterion and Speaker Meaning--J.Saul
A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicatures--M.Simons
Three Theories of Implicature: Default Theory, Relevance and Minimalism--E.Borg
Contextualism--N.Kompa
Index

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