1. Introduction -- 2. A preliminary case for conventional implicatures -- 3. A logic for conventional implicatures -- 4. Supplements -- 5. Expressive content -- 6. The supplement relation : a syntactic alternative -- 7. A look outside Grice's definition -- App. The logic L[subscript CI] and L[subscript U]
Summary
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)
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Cruz 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and indexes
