Illocutionary denegation refers to the negation of the speech act itself, not just its propositional content. It's about denying the…
Generalized implicature refers to meanings that are often, but not always, conveyed by an utterance. It's a key concept in…
The deictic center is the conceptual 'here' and 'now' from which an utterance is oriented. It anchors language in the…
Conventional implicature refers to meaning that is suggested or implied by an utterance, but not strictly entailed by its literal…
This concept explores how performing one speech act can obligate or commit the speaker to performing subsequent acts, influencing conversational…
Clausal implicature refers to the meaning conveyed beyond the literal words of a sentence. It arises from conversational principles, context,…
An actual presupposition is a statement implicitly assumed to be true before another statement can be understood or evaluated. It's…
Verity, in degree-theoretic semantics, quantifies the truth of a statement. It assigns a numerical value between 0 and 1, representing…
A truth predicate assigns truth to propositions, central to Tarski's semantic theory. It grapples with the nature of truth and…
Tarski's indefinability theorem proves that truth cannot be consistently defined within the same language it applies to. A meta-language is…