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Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Imagination and Convention Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Author: Ernie Lepore, Matthew Stone
What do speakers mean? What do they convey? What do they reveal? How do they invite us to think? Communication exploits conventional rules, deliberate choices, and many other faculties. How? A common answer invokes simple meanings and general ways to reinterpret them, as in H. P. Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Lepore and Stone ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198717188
ISBN-10: 0198717180
Publication Date: 3/8/2015
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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