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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 offer a new account of language as a specifically social competence for making our ideas public. They argue that this approach is a good way to target the distinctive mechanisms and problems at play in explaining the human faculty of language. At the same time, this view embraces the diverse dimensions of meaning that linguists have discovered. This is the right way to delimit semantics.

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Author:   Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University) ,  Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9780198797418

ISBN 10:   0198797419
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   22 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface 1: Overview I: The Landscape of Pragmatic Inference Introduction to Part I 2: The Gricean Framework 3: The Linguistic Turn 4: The Psychological Turn II: The Interpretive Effects of Linguistic Rules Introduction to Part II 5: The Scope of Linguistic Conventions 6: Speech Act Conventions: Indirection and Relevance 7: Presupposition and Anaphora: The Case of Tense and Aspect 8: Information Structure: Intonation and Scalars Summary of Part II and Projection III: Varieties of Interpretive Reasoning Introduction to Part III 9: The Scope of Interpretive Reasoning 10: Perspective Taking: Metaphor 11: Presenting Utterances: Sarcasm, Irony, and Humor 12: Leaving Things Open: Hinting Summary of Part III and Projection IV: Theorizing Semantics and Pragmatics Introduction to Part IV 13: Interpretation and Intention Recognition 14: Inquiry and the Formal Underpinnings of Communication Conclusion

Reviews

`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.' Lenny Clapp, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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. Lenny Clapp, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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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.

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