Imagination and Convention - Couverture souple

Lepore, Ernie

 
9780198797418: Imagination and Convention

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Ernie Lepore is Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.


Matthew Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.


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9780198717188: Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0198717180 ISBN 13 :  9780198717188
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2014
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