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Imagination and convention distinguishing grammar and inference in language

By Matthew , Lepore , Ernie; Stone

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
978-0-19-871718-8, 0198717180
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1891992 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
292\305
Time added
2017-06-25 19:00:00
Lexicology. Semantics;Psycholinguistics;Grammar

Description

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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