Imagination and convention : distinguishing grammar and inference in language
LePore, Ernest,1950-Author
Stone, MatthewContributor
Stone, MatthewAuthor
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2015).
Semantics
Pragmatics
Interpersonal communication
Languages & Literatures
Philology & Linguistics