Overview

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.

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Author:   Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University) ,  Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780198717188

ISBN 10:   0198717180
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   11 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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

Author Information

Ernie Lepore is Board of Governors, Professor of Philosophy and an Acting Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers. Matthew Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers.

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