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

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2016
Authors:	Ernie Lepore • Matthew Stone
Dimensions:	234 x 158 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-879741-8
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:	0-19-879741-9
Barcode:	9780198797418

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