Logics and Languages

Cresswell, M. J. (1973). Logics and Languages.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1973

DOI

10.4324/9781315542652/logics-languages-cresswell

Link

https://archive.org/details/logicslanguages0000unse

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics, rhetoric

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Contextual Mode Switching
  • .

    This sourceFormal semantics handling indexical/context-dependent expressions via indices. Loosely supports 'formal logical frameworks for understanding meaning across contexts'; tangential to chatbot mode-switching but defensible as the formal-semantics-of-context reference (markers 141). Link is Open Library work page.

• Deixis
  • But "I" in "We need to decide" (plural inclusive "we") may carry pragmatic implicature beyond its semantic rule.

    This sourceMethuen. Applies formal-logic (incl. modal-logic) semantics to natural language, treating context dependence and indexical expressions formally.

• Emergent Formalization (Language)

  • This sourceMethuen. Cresswell Logics and Languages modal logic indexical expressions.

• Emphasis

  • This sourceMethuen. Bibliography-only; applies formal-logic semantics (including indexical/context-dependent expressions) to natural language.

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