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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: The Logic of Metaphor: Analogous Parts of Possible Words
Written By: Eric C. Steinhart
URL: http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-7004-X
Series Title: Synthese Library Volume: 299
Description:

The Logic of Metaphors uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to provide formal truth-conditions for many grammatical classes of metaphors. It gives logically precise and practically useful syntactic and semantic rules for generating and interpreting metaphors. These rules are implemented in a working computer program. The book treats the lexicon as a conceptual network with semantics provided by an intensional predicate calculus. It gives rules for finding analogies in such networks. It shows how to analyse texts containing metaphors both syntactically and semantically and how to use structural similarities between parts of possible worlds to provide truth-conditions for metaphors. Meanings for metaphors are linked to the modal logics of identity and indiscernibility. The book shows how to extend deductive and adductive inference systems so as to handle metaphors and how to handle novel metaphorical word-senses.

Publication Year: 2001
Publisher: Kluwer
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Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 079237004X
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 264
Prices: EUR 95.00 / USD 83.00 / GBP 58