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Pragmatics (Hardcover)
N. Burton-Roberts; Contributions by Jay David Atlas, Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Ira A. Noveck, …
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This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide
range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory,
in chapters by distinguished authors. Among the specific topics
covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics,
indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of
negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of
Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics (Paperback)
N. Burton-Roberts; Contributions by Jay David Atlas, Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Ira A. Noveck, …
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R1,536
Discovery Miles 15 360
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide
range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory,
in chapters by distinguished authors. Among the specific topics
covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics,
indexicality, procedural meaning, the semantics and pragmatics of
negation. The volume includes both defences and critiques of
Relevance Theory and of Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.
If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often
behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle,
cognitive psychologists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber explore how
our 'flawed superpower' of reason works, how it doesn't, and how it
evolved to help us develop as social beings. 'Original and
provocative ... likely to have a big impact on our understanding of
ourselves' Steven Pinker 'Brilliant, elegant and compelling ...
turns reason's weaknesses into strengths, arguing that its supposed
flaws are actually design features that work remarkably well ... A
timely and necessary book' Julian Baggini, Financial Times 'Hugo
Mercier and Dan Sperber have solved one of the most important and
longstanding puzzles in psychology' Jonathan Haidt 'Reason is more
likely to confirm things that we want to be true, or which we
already believe. So why does it exist? This book provides the
answer' Alex Dean, Prospect
When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean,
and the context is always compatible with a variety of
interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and
Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided
by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations
between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics
and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and
conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations,
metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers'
meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other
minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in
cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer
these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory
and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy,
cognitive science and literary studies.
When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean,
and the context is always compatible with a variety of
interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and
Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided
by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations
between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics
and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and
conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations,
metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers'
meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other
minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in
cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer
these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory
and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy,
cognitive science and literary studies.
This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
An understanding of cause--effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. In this book, outstanding specialists from comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy present the newest developments in the study of causal cognition and discuss their different perspectives. They reflect on the role and forms of causal knowledge, both in animal and human cognition, on the development of human causal cognition from infancy, and on the relationship between individual and cultural aspects of causal understanding. The result is a state-of-the-art, informative, insightful, and interdisciplinary debate aimed at the non-specialist.
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