Inquisitive semantics
This book presents a new logical framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University Press
2019.
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Series: | Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics
6 Oxford linguistics |
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