This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. This book presents a new logical
framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The
traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know
the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it
is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical
investigations are usually carried out in a logical framework that
was originally designed to characterize valid argumentation.
However, argumentation is neither the sole, nor the primary
function of language. One task that language more widely and
ordinarily fulfils is to enable the exchange of information between
conversational participants. In the framework outlined in this
volume, inquisitive semantics, information exchange is seen as a
process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitive semantics
provides a new formal notion of meaning, which makes it possible to
model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis of
linguistic information exchange in a more refined and more
principled way than has been possible in previous frameworks.
Importantly, it also allows an integrated treatment of statements
and questions. The first part of the book presents the framework in
detail, while the second demonstrates its benefits in the semantic
analysis of questions, coordination, modals, conditionals, and
intonation. The book will be of interest to researchers and
students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of
semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and logic.
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