Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198717180
ISBN13:9780198717188
Release Date:February 2015
Publisher:Oxford University Press (UK)
Length:302 Pages
Weight:1.38 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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