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