Meaning and Analysis New Essays on Grice [Hardcover]

The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Paul Grice, Philosopher of Language, But More Than That; K.Petrus Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Ordinary Language; S.Chapman Intuition, the Paradigm Case Argument, and the Two Dogmas of Kant'otelianism: Grice's Defense of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Kripke's Defense of Essentialism; J.D.Atlas Grice on Presupposition; A.Bezuidenhout Irregular Negations: Implicature and Idion Theories; W.A.Davis A Gricean View on Intrusive Implicature; M.Simons Speaker Meaning, Conversational Implicature, and Calculability; J.Saul Some Aspects of Reasons and Rationality; J.Baker Showing and Meaning: On How We Make Our Ideas Clear; M.Green Illocution, Perillocution and Communication; K.Petrus Speaker Meaning and the Logic of Communicative Acts; C.Plunze The Total Content of What a Speaker Means; A.Martinich On Three Theories of Implicature: Default Theory, Relevance Theory and Minimalism; E.Borg Contextualism in the Philosophy of Language; N.Kompa WJ40: Issues in the Investigation of Implicature; L.R.Horn IndexJAY DAVID ATLAS University of Massachusetts, USAJUDITH BAKER York University, CanadaANNE BEZUIDENHOUT University of South Carolina, USAEMMA BORG University of Reading, UKSIOBHAN CHAPMAN University of Liverpool, UKWAYNE A. DAVIS Georgetown University, USAMITCHELL GREEN University of Virginia, USALAURENCE R. HORN Yale University, USAAL MARTINICH University of Texas at Austin, USANIKOLA KOMPA University of Bern, SwitzerlandCHRISTIAN PLUNZE University of Frankfurt, GermanyJENNIFER SAUL University of Sheffield, UKMANDY SIMONS Carnegie Mellon University, USA