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Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language

Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language

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Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0198717180
ISBN13: 9780198717188
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Published: Feb 11 2015
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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

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