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Imagination and convention : distinguishing grammar and inference in language /

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 advance an alternative view which better captures what is going on in lingu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: LePore, Ernest, 1950- (Author), Stone, Matthew (Writer on language) (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Meaning (Psychology)
Inference.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
Signification (Psychologie)
Inférence (Logique)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Inference
Language and languages > Philosophy
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 advance an alternative view which better captures what is going on in linguistic communication.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 292 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0191785938
9780191785931
9780191026713
0191026719