People often mean more than they say. Grammar on its own is
typically insufficient for determining the full meaning of an
utterance; the assumption that the discourse is coherent or 'makes
sense' has an important role to play in determining meaning as
well. Logics of Conversation presents a dynamic semantic framework
called Segmented Discourse Representation Theory, or SDRT, where
this interaction between discourse coherence and discourse
interpretation is explored in a logically precise manner. Combining
ideas from dynamic semantics, commonsense reasoning and speech act
theory, SDRT uses its analysis of rhetorical relations to capture
intuitively compelling implicatures. It provides a computable
method for constructing these logical forms and is one of the most
formally precise and linguistically grounded accounts of discourse
interpretation currently available. The book will be of interest to
researchers and students in linguistics and in philosophy of
language.
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