Imagination and Convention - Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2014
Authors:	Ernie Lepore • Matthew Stone
Dimensions:	239 x 163 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-871718-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-19-871718-0
Barcode:	9780198717188

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