Studies in the Way of Words

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Studies in the Way of Words is a landmark collection of essays by philosopher H. P. Grice that develops his influential theories of meaning, implicature, and conversational maxims in the philosophy of language.

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instanceOf book
essay collection
author H. P. Grice
Herbert Paul Grice
linked to: H. P. Grice
countryOfPublication United States
field analytic philosophy
linguistics
genre philosophy
philosophy of language
hasPart essay "Causal Theory"
essay "Further Notes on Logic and Conversation"
essay "Logic and Conversation"
essay "Meaning Revisited"
essay "Meaning"
essay "Postwar Oxford Philosophy"
essay "Presupposition and Conversational Implicature"
essay "Prolegomena"
essay "Reply to Richards"
essay "Retrospective Epilogue"
essay "Utterer's Meaning and Intentions"
essay "Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning"
essay "Vacuous Names"
hasTheoreticalFramework Gricean maxims of conversation
linked to: Gricean maxims

cooperative principle
influenced Gricean pragmatics
linked to: Gricean maxims

contemporary semantics-pragmatics interface
relevance theory
speech act theory
language English
notableFor formulation of the theory of conversational implicature
influence on philosophy of language
influence on pragmatics
systematic statement of Gricean maxims
publisher Harvard University Press
subject communication
conversational implicature
conversational maxims
implicature
literal meaning
logic and conversation
maxim of manner
maxim of quality
maxim of quantity
maxim of relation
meaning
non-literal meaning
pragmatics
semantics
speaker meaning

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