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Semantic perception : how the illusion of a common language arises and persists / Jody Azzouni.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Azzouni, Jody, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Semantics (Philosophy).
Semantics--Methodology.
Semantics.
Meaning (Philosophy).
Nonverbal communication--Philosophy.
Nonverbal communication.
Perception (Philosophy).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 374 pages)
Other Title:
How the illusion of a common language arises and persists
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of human actions, and certain human actions themselves as having meaning-properties.
Contents:
The experience of understanding expressions
Illusions of meaning
The phenomenological what is said
The experienced distinction between what is said and implicated content
Strict content
Truth-content
The use and misuse of communicative intentions: grand-style neo-Griceanism
Opportunistic applications of posited communicative intentions
Artificial extensions of natural language
General conclusion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-996741-5
OCLC:
843880757

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