Imagination and Convention

Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-879741-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lepore, Ernie

Stone, Matthew

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ernie Lepore is Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.

Matthew Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University.