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050 4 $aBC199.P73$bW55 1991
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100 1 $aWilson, Deirdre.
245 10 $aPresuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics /$cDeirdre Wilson.
260 $aAldershot :$bGregg Revivals,$c1991, ©1975.
300 $axiii, 161 pages ;$c23 cm.
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490 1 $aModern revivals in philosophy
500 $aOriginally Published: London : Academic Press, 1975.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages .155-157) and index.
505 1 $aIntroduction ---- Part I. presupposition and entailment. 1. Truth-conditional semantics --- 2. Presupposition and entailment: non-existential cases ---- Part II. Presupposition and assertion. 4. Presupposition, assertion, and lexical terms --- 5. Preferred interpretations ---- Part III. Non-truth-conditional semantics. 6. Some problems for the entailment analysis --- 7. Some possible approaches.
520 1 $aThe notion of presupposition, introduced into philosophical currency by Strawson, has been taken up and widely used in linguistics. But whatever precision the notion originally possessed has largely been lost in the transfer: grammarians have tended to stretch the notion to cover a wide range of semantic and pragmatic relations. Deirdre Wilson's book is a timely attempt to retrieve some clarity in this area. The book is divided into three parts. In Part I, Dr. Wilson discusses the claim that an adequate semantic theory must not only assign truth- conditions to each sentence, but must also generate assignments of truth-value conditions or logical presuppositions. Part II deals with the view that there is more to semantics than the assignment of truth- conditions (or truth-value conditions), and that an adequate theory must also generate the sentence-specific pragmatic presuppositions that need to be satisfied if the use of a sentence is to constitute a felicitous speech- act. And in the final part of the book, Dr. Wilson discusses the sort of presuppositions that are involved in using 'but' rather than 'and', or 'deprive' rather than 'spare'. The main conclusions throughout are sober and attractive; the supporting arguments are more of a mixed bag. -- from JSTOR http://www.jstor.org (Sep. 25, 2012).
650 0 $aPresupposition (Logic)
650 0 $aSemantics (Philosophy)
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830 0 $aModern revivals in philosophy.
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