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

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 lingu...

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Main Authors: LePore, Ernest, 1950- (Author), Stone, Matthew (Writer on language) (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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