Meaning, Expression, and Thought

This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics represents a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states; principally, thoughts and ideas; and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean program, explaining the significance of words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. Grice's own formulations are rejected, and alternatives are developed.

Author: Wayne a. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/11/2002
Pages: 674
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.30w x 1.78d
ISBN: 9780521555135