What Is Said and What Is Not

This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's 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.

Carlo Penco is Director of the Doctoral School in Humanities at the University of Genoa. Filippo Domaneschi is a graduate student at the University of Genoa.

Front cover image adapted from the sculpture "The Conversation" by Tom Corbin (http://corbinbronze.com).

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September 2013