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 ofdeixis, 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. "