Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding (Paperback, 2nd edition)

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech, text, and discourse, accessible to the widest group possible -- not just specialists in linguistics or communication theorists -- but all scholars and researchers whose enterprises depend on having a useful model of how communicative agents understand utterances and expect their own utterances to be understood.
Based on feedback from readers over the past seven years, explanations in every chapter have been improved and updated in this thoroughly revised version of the original text published in 1989. The most extensive revisions concern the relevance of technical notions of mutual and normal belief, and the futility of using the notion 'null context' to describe meaning. In addition, the discussion of implicature now includes an extended explication of "Grice's Cooperative Principle" which attempts to put it in the context of his theory of meaning and rationality, and to preclude misinterpretations which it has suffered over the past 20 years. The revised chapter exploits the notion of normal belief to improve the account of conversational implicature.

General

Imprint:	Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Tutorial Essays in Cognitive Science Series
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Georgia M. Green
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-2166-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN:	0-8058-2166-X
Barcode:	9780805821666

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