Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language

ISBN-13: 9780198797418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Ernie Lepore; Matthew Stone

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Lepore and Stone's articulation of direct intentionalism offers a strategy for combining into a unified theory both fundamental philosophical theories concerning the nature of intentions and cooperative activity and empirical theories in linguistics and cognitive science concerning the particular mechanism of natural languages. This is a significant accomplishment . . . I wholeheartedly recommend their book for anyone interested in the relationship between conventional meaning and cooperative rational action and the attendant issue of how to understand the relationship between pragmatics and semantics.

O autorze

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.