Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2014
978-0-19-106113-4 (ISBN)
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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, andthat 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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Ernie Lepore | Matthew Stone
Imagination and Convention
Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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12/2014
Oxford University Press
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