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Publication details [#4001]

Grice, H. Paul. 1981. Presupposition and conversational implicature. In Cole, Peter, ed. Radical pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 183–198.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational implicature | definite description | existential presupposition | meaning theory

Person as a subject

Russell, B.

Annotation

G. discusses some possibilities of treating definite descriptions, and more particularly the existential presuppositions which they seem to carry, in the framework of a (modified or extended) Russellian semantics.