Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language - Couverture rigide

Lepore, Ernie; Stone, Matthew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198717180 ISBN 13 : 9780198717188

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ernie Lepore is Board of Governors, Professor of Philosophy and an Acting Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers.

Matthew Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198717180
• ISBN 13: 9780198717188
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 302
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