Logics and Languages

<p>Originally published in 1973 this book shows that methods developed for the semantics of systems of formal logic can be successfully applied to problems about the semantics of natural languages; and moreover that such methods can take account of features of natural language which have often been thought incapable of formal treatment such as vagueness context dependence and metaphorical meaning. </p> <p>Parts 1 and 2 set out a class of formal languages and their semantics. Parts 3 and 4 show that these formal languages are rich enought to be used in the precise description of natural languages. </p> <p>Appendices describe some of the concepts discussed in the text. </p>