This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grices 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 when an utterance require context in order to be understood fully; the treatment of definite descriptions; and the different kinds of pragmatic processes.
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| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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1 What is Said: A Short History in Quotes |
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13 | (114) |
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3 Context and Logical Form |
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37 | (22) |
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59 | (28) |
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5 The Lure of Linguistification |
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87 | (12) |
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99 | (28) |
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127 | (78) |
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131 | (10) |
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8 Metaphor and the Scope Argument |
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141 | (18) |
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9 Reference through Mental Files |
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159 | (16) |
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10 Word Meaning, What is Said and Explicature |
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175 | (30) |
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11 Grice's Requirements on What is Said |
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209 | (16) |
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12 Ironically Saying and Implicating |
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225 | (18) |
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13 Non Indexical Contextualism |
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243 | (22) |
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14 On Situationalism: Situations with an Attitude |
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265 | (20) |
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15 Three Methodological Flaws of Linguistic Pragmatism |
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285 | (16) |
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16 Direct Discourse, Indirect Discourse and Belief |
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301 | (14) |
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| References |
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315 | (22) |
| Name Index |
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| Subject Index |
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Carlo Penco is director of the Graduate School in Humanities at the University of Genoa, where Filippo Domaneschi is a graduate student.
