Imagination and convention : distinguishing grammar and inference in language / Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LePore, Ernest, 1950- author.

Stone, Matthew (Writer on language), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Interpersonal communication.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Meaning (Psychology).

Inference.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 292 pages)

Other Title:

Distinguishing grammar and inference in language

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Overview

I: The Landscape of Pragmatic Inference

2. The Gricean Framework

3. The Linguistic Turn

4. The Psychological Turn

II: The Interpretive Effects of Linguistic Rules

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

III: Varieties of Interpretive Reasoning

9. The Scope of Interpretive Reasoning

10. Perspective Taking: Metaphor

11. Presenting Utterances: Sarcasm, Irony, and Humor

12. Leaving Things Open: Hinting

IV: Theorizing Semantics and Pragmatics

13. Interpretation and Intention Recognition

14. Inquiry and the Formal Underpinnings of Communication.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 14, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-178593-8

OCLC:

907221518