Imagination and Convention : Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language

Name: Imagination and Convention
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198797418
Price: 7200 KES
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ISBN: 9780198797418

by Ernie Lepore , Matthew Stone

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Format 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

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Semantics, discourse analysis, etc Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Philosophy Cognition & cognitive psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology Philosophy

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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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