Imagination and Convention
Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 December 2014
- ISBN 9780198717188
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 239x163x24 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 into a profoundly new account of meaning in language.
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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Overview
I: The Landscape of Pragmatic Inference
Introduction to Part I
The Gricean Framework
The Linguistic Turn
The Psychological Turn
II: The Interpretive Effects of Linguistic Rules
Introduction to Part II
The Scope of Linguistic Conventions
Speech Act Conventions: Indirection and Relevance
Presupposition and Anaphora: The Case of Tense and Aspect
Information Structure: Intonation and Scalars
Summary of Part II and Projection
III: Varieties of Interpretive Reasoning
Introduction to Part III
The Scope of Interpretive Reasoning
Perspective Taking: Metaphor
Presenting Utterances: Sarcasm, Irony, and Humor
Leaving Things Open: Hinting
Summary of Part III and Projection
IV: Theorizing Semantics and Pragmatics
Introduction to Part IV
Interpretation and Intention Recognition
Inquiry and the Formal Underpinnings of Communication
Conclusion
