Scalar Implicatures, Communication, and Language Evolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: The Formal Turn. Preface 1
4. Philosophy, Linguistics and Semantic Interpretation 17
5. An Unresolved Issue: Nonsense in Natural Language and Non-Classical Logical and Semantic Systems 43
6. Varieties of Context-Dependence 63
7. The Logos of Semantic Structure 85
8. The Good Samaritan and the Hygienic Cook: A Cautionary Tale About Linguistic Data 103
9. The Meaning of Multiple Quantified Sentences: Where Formal Semantics Meets Psycholinguistics 119
10. The Hybrid Theory of Reference for Proper Names 137
11. On the Nature of Statistical Language Laws 151
12. Vagueness and Contextualism 169
13. The Myth of Semantic Structure 183
14. Scalar Implicatures, Communication, and Language Evolution 199
15. Semantics and Contextuality: The Case of Pia’s Leaves 215
16. Is Logico-Semantical Analysis of Natural Language Expressions a Translation? 229
17. Beyond the Fregean Myth: The Value of Logical Values 245
18. Modal Calculus of Illocutionary Logic 261
19. ‘Subjectivity’ in Philosophy and Linguistics 277
20. Gottlob Frege, Philosophy of Language, and Predication 295
21. Order 315
22. Asymmetrical Semantics 329
23. Truth: An Anti-realist Adequacy Condition 347
24. Belief Reports: Defaults, Intentions and Scorekeeping 363
25. On Truth in Time 381
26. Index of names 411
27. Index of subjects 413