Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

Abstract

"In this book, linguists and philosophers combine to offer a unique insight not only into Grice's contribution to philosophy of language, but on his theories of natural and non-natural meaning, implicatures and the semantic-pragmatic distinction"-- Introduction / K. Petrus -- H. Paul Grice's defense of the analytic/synthetic distinction and its unintended historical consequences in twentieth century analytical philosophy / J. Atlas -- Paul Grice and the philosopher of ordinary language / S. Chapman -- Some aspects on reasons and rationality / J. Baker -- The total content of what a speaker means / A. Martinich -- Showing and meaning / M. Green -- Communicative acts : with and without understanding / C. Plunze -- Perillocutionary acts : a Gricean approach / K. Petrus -- William James + 40 : issues in the investigation of implicature / L. Horn -- Grice on presupposition / A. Bezuidenhout -- Irregular negations : implicature and idiom theories / W. Davis -- Grice's calculability criterion and speaker meaning / J. Saul -- A Gricean view on intrusive implicatures / M. Simons -- Three theories of implicature : default theory, relevance and minimalism / E. Borg -- Contextualism / N. Kompa -- Index.