Explicature and Semantics 论文

摘要

Abstract A standard view of the semantics of natural language sentences or utterances is that a sentence has a particular logical structure and is assigned truth-conditional content on the basis of that structure. Such a semantics is assumed to be able to capture the logical properties of sentences, including necessary truth, contradiction, and valid inference; our knowledge of these properties is taken to be part of our semantic competence as native speakers of the language.