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The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
This text revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. The author uses the original concept defined by H. Paul Grice as a key into two areas of natural language - supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (honorifics, epithets).
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
"This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. Since H. Paul Grice first defined the concept, his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under-studied areas of natural language : supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (e.g. honorifics, epithets)."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
This text revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. The author uses the original concept defined by H. Paul Grice as a key into two areas of natural language - supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (honorifics, epithets).
What Does it Mean to be Human?
This generously illustrated book tells the story of the human family, showing how our species' physical traits and behaviors evolved over millions of years as our ancestors adapted to dramatic environmental changes. In What Does It Means to Be Human? Rick Potts, director of the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program, and Chris Sloan, National Geographic's paleoanthropolgy expert, delve into our distant past to explain when, why, and how we acquired the unique biological and cultural qualities that govern our most fundamental connections and interactions with other people and with the natural world. Drawing on the latest research, they conclude that we are the last survivors of a once-diverse fa...
The Demon Of The Lake Murders
It's a snowy day in the city of Decreston, New York. After 25 years of service, Detective Derrick Mallow is retiring from the Decreston Law Enforcement Division. Mallow needs a change; there are too many bad memories in Decreston. No longer wanting to be a detective, he moves to Lake Tisdale, South Carolina, taking a new position as a patrol officer. But not long after Mallow arrives, there are two mysterious murders and a suicide. A small boy claims he saw a demon leaving one of the crime scenes. Together with his fellow police officers and the Jenkins County Sheriff's Department, Mallow must piece together the clues and find the killer. But is it the culprit really a demon, or something even more sinister?
Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning
Beyond Expressives: Explorations in Use-Conditional Meaning offers empirical and theoretical studies of expressions whose meaning falls outside the standard realm of truth-conditional semantics. Aspects of meaning that are better captured by their use-conditions instead came into the spotlight of formal semantics recently, mainly due to the raised interest in expressions like interjections or swear words. Going beyond such expressives, the contributions provide detailed semantic analyses of a broad range of use-conditional items, including particles, non-inflectional constructions, personal datives and interpretational effects of focus. This volume thereby proves that the empirical domain of...
Slurs and Expressivity
Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for the members of a certain group of people identified in terms of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, political ideology, and other personal qualities. In as far as they are used to express emotional attitudes, slurs are, thus, a kind of expressive words. This collection provides different hypotheses regarding the way in which the expressive import of slurs and other related expressive words is semantically encoded in the grammar and how their meaning impacts other aspects related to their use in different practices of linguistic communication. These linguistic practices are usually, but not always, related to segregation and discrimination of particular human groups. Therefore, any contribution to the theory of slur meaning is, directly or indirectly, also a contribution to a better understanding of those practices and to finding the best way to eradicate them.
Meaning Without Truth
In this book the author presents an account of the relationships between the central semantic notions of meaning and truth.
DefrICtion
In this conclusion to the trilogy that began with FruITion and continued with RecrEation, Michael finds that the consequences for everyone are part cultural, part structural, and part operational.
