Imagination and Convention

Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-871718-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lepore, Ernie

Stone, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Ernie Lepore is Board of Governors, Professor of Philosophy and an Acting Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers.

Matthew Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers.