附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
1 Semantical Underdeterminacy; 2 Grice's Theory of Conversational Inference: A Critical Exposition; 3 The Rise of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics; 4 The Post-Gricean Theory of Presupposition; 5 Assertibility Conditions, Implicature, and the Question of Semantic Holism: Almost but Not Quite; 6 The Third Linguistic Turn and the Inscrutability of Literal Sense; Appendix 1 On G. E. Moore's Term 'Imply'; Appendix 2 On Hitzeman (1992) on 'Almost'; Appendix 3 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Cleft Sentences; Appendix 4 A Note on Notation; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N
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摘要:Focusing on pragmatics, this work examines verbal ambiguity and verbal generality whilst providing a detailed theory of conversational implicature using the work of Paul Grice as a starting point.