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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Main Authors: LePore, Ernest 1950- (Author), Stone, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2015
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Online Access:Volltext
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
ISBN:9780191785931
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717188.001.0001

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