Introduction to cognition and communication / Keith Stenning, Alex Lascarides, and Jo Calder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stenning, Keith.

Contributor:

Lascarides, Alex.

Calder, Jo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Cognitive science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An introduction to the cognitive sciences through the exploration of one subject-human communication-from the perspectives of the component disciplines of cognitive science-psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and AI.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

I PEOPLE COMMUNICATING-EXAMPLES

1 Communication and Cognitive Science

2 A (Too?) Simple Model of Communication

3 Looking for Certainties

4 Managing with Uncertainties

II THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

5 Content, Context, and Formal Systems

6 Computation and Representation

7 Representation: Inside the Black Box

III MODELS OF LANGUAGE

8 Describing Language

9 Words, Phrases, and Meanings

10 Linking Form and Meaning: Grammars

11 Ambiguity

12 Language in Machines

13 Language in People

IV COMMUNICATING IN CONTEXT

14 Finding What a Pronoun Refers To

15 Presuppositions

16 Juxtaposing Sentences

17 Processing Dialogue

V GRAPHICAL COMMUNICATION

18 Graphical Communication

VI SCIENCE APPLIED TO THE SUBJECTIVE?

19 Where Have All the Qualia Gone?

Notes

VII APPENDIXES

Appendix A: Bibliographical Notes and Further Reading

Appendix B: Consolidated Grammars

Appendix C: Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09845-4

9786612098451

0-262-28428-6

1-4294-7765-2

OCLC:

191952894