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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Target entity: Studies in the Way of Words Context triple: [H. P. Grice, notableWork, Studies in the Way of Words]
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How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
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The Way to Language
"The Way to Language" is a philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger that explores the nature of language as the medium through which being and thought are disclosed.
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The Word as Such
"The Word as Such" is a seminal Russian Futurist manifesto-essay that explores the autonomy and materiality of language, helping to define the movement’s radical poetic theory.
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The Prison-House of Language
The Prison-House of Language is a critical study by Fredric Jameson that examines structuralism and post-structuralism, exploring how language systems constrain thought and interpretation in modern literary theory.
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In Praise of the Music of Language
In Praise of the Music of Language is the subtitle of Douglas Hofstadter’s book *Le Ton beau de Marot*, which explores translation, poetry, and the intricate play of meaning and form in language.
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Target entity: Studies in the Way of Words Target entity description: 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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A.
How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
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B.
The Way to Language
"The Way to Language" is a philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger that explores the nature of language as the medium through which being and thought are disclosed.
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C.
The Word as Such
"The Word as Such" is a seminal Russian Futurist manifesto-essay that explores the autonomy and materiality of language, helping to define the movement’s radical poetic theory.
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D.
The Prison-House of Language
The Prison-House of Language is a critical study by Fredric Jameson that examines structuralism and post-structuralism, exploring how language systems constrain thought and interpretation in modern literary theory.
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E.
In Praise of the Music of Language
In Praise of the Music of Language is the subtitle of Douglas Hofstadter’s book *Le Ton beau de Marot*, which explores translation, poetry, and the intricate play of meaning and form in language.
- F. None of above. chosen
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book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| author |
H. P. Grice
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Herbert Paul Grice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
analytic philosophy
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linguistics ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy
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philosophy of language ⓘ |
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essay "Causal Theory"
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essay "Further Notes on Logic and Conversation" ⓘ essay "Logic and Conversation" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Meaning Revisited" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Meaning" ⓘ essay "Postwar Oxford Philosophy" ⓘ essay "Presupposition and Conversational Implicature" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Prolegomena" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Reply to Richards" ⓘ essay "Retrospective Epilogue" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Utterer's Meaning and Intentions" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Vacuous Names" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Gricean maxims of conversation
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cooperative principle ⓘ |
| influenced |
Gricean pragmatics
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contemporary semantics-pragmatics interface ⓘ relevance theory ⓘ speech act theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
formulation of the theory of conversational implicature
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influence on philosophy of language ⓘ influence on pragmatics ⓘ systematic statement of Gricean maxims ⓘ |
| publisher | Harvard University Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
communication
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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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