Imagination and Convention : Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198797419
ISBN-13
9780198797418
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 22nd, 2016
Print length
302 Pages
Weight
466 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 31.70 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.
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 offer a new account of language as a specifically social competence for making our ideas public. They argue that this approach is a good way to target the distinctive mechanisms and problems at play in explaining the human faculty of language. At the same time, this view embraces the diverse dimensions of meaning that linguists have discovered. This is the right way to delimit semantics.
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