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Building on the work of J. L. Austin and Paul Grice, The Use of Language develops an original and systematic game-theoretic account of communication, speaker meaning, and addressee interpretation, extending this analysis to conversational implicature and the Gricean maxims, illocutionary force, miscommunication, visual representation and visual implicature, and aspects of discourse.

200 pages | © 2001

Lecture Notes

Language and Linguistics: Syntax and Semantics

Philosophy: Logic and Philosophy of Language


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