Imagination and Convention : Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198717180
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9780198717188
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2014
Print length
302 Pages
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608 grams
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16.40 x 23.60 x 2.10 cms
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How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of semantics and pragmatics are unsatisfactory. They advance an alternative view which better captures what is going on in linguistic communication.
What do speakers mean? What do they convey? What do they reveal? How do they invite us to think? Communication exploits conventional rules, deliberate choices, and many other faculties. How? A common answer invokes simple meanings and general ways to reinterpret them, as in H. P. Grice''s theory of conversational implicature. Lepore and Stone show such answers are unsatisfactory. Instead, they argue that language provides diverse tools for making ideas public, and that communication recruits distinct kinds of imagination. The work synthesizes results from across cognitive science into a profoundly new account of meaning in language.
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