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Imagination and Convention

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Imagination and Convention

Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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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 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.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
December 22nd, 2016
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
302
Dimensions
158x234x17
ISBN-13
9780198797418
Product ID
26024929

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