Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language by

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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.

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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 show such answers are unsatisfactory. Instead, they argue that language provides diverse tools for making ideas public,and that communication recruits distinct kinds of imagination. The work synthesizes results from across cognitive science into a profoundly new account of meaning in language.

Author Biography

Ernie Lepore is Board of Governors, Professor of Philosophy and an Acting Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers. Matthew Stone is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers.

Table of Contents

Preface1: OverviewI: The Landscape of Pragmatic InferenceIntroduction to Part I2: The Gricean Framework3: The Linguistic Turn4: The Psychological TurnII: The Interpretive Effects of Linguistic RulesIntroduction to Part II5: The Scope of Linguistic Conventions6: Speech Act Conventions: Indirection and Relevance7: Presupposition and Anaphora: The Case of Tense and Aspect8: Information Structure: Intonation and ScalarsSummary of Part II and ProjectionIII: Varieties of Interpretive ReasoningIntroduction to Part III9: The Scope of Interpretive Reasoning10: Perspective Taking: Metaphor11: Presenting Utterances: Sarcasm, Irony, and Humor12: Leaving Things Open: HintingSummary of Part III and ProjectionIV: Theorizing Semantics and PragmaticsIntroduction to Part IV13: Interpretation and Intention Recognition14: Inquiry and the Formal Underpinnings of CommunicationConclusion

Review

Lepore and Stone's articulation of direct intentionalism offers a strategy for combining into a unified theory both fundamental philosophical theories concerning the nature of intentions and cooperative activity and empirical theories in linguistics and cognitive science concerning the particular mechanism of natural languages. This is a significant accomplishment.... I wholeheartedly recommend their book for anyone interested in the relationship between conventional meaning and cooperative rational action and the attendant issue of how to understand the relationship between pragmatics and semantics. * Lenny Clapp, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Long Description

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 show such answers are unsatisfactory. Instead, they argue that language provides diverse tools for making ideas public,and that communication recruits distinct kinds of imagination. The work synthesizes results from across cognitive science into a profoundly new account of meaning in language.

Review Quote

Lepore and Stone's articulation of direct intentionalism offers a strategy for combining into a unified theory both fundamental philosophical theories concerning the nature of intentions and cooperative activity and empirical theories in linguistics and cognitive science concerning the particular mechanism of natural languages. This is a significant accomplishment.... I wholeheartedly recommend their book for anyone interested in the relationship between conventionalmeaning and cooperative rational action and the attendant issue of how to understand the relationship between pragmatics and semantics.

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A radical new theory of linguistic understandingOffers a trenchant critique of leading theories of the relation between semantics and pragmaticsInformed by empirical study of a wide range of linguistic phenomenaDraws together philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science

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Preface 1. Overview I: The Landscape of Pragmatic Inference Introduction to Part I 2. The Gricean Framework 3. The Linguistic Turn 4. The Psychological Turn II: The Interpretive Effects of Linguistic Rules Introduction to Part II 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 Summary of Part II and Projection III: Varieties of Interpretive Reasoning Introduction to Part III 9. The Scope of Interpretive Reasoning 10. Perspective Taking: Metaphor 11. Presenting Utterances: Sarcasm, Irony, and Humor 12. Leaving Things Open: Hinting Summary of Part III and Projection IV: Theorizing Semantics and Pragmatics Introduction to Part IV 13. Interpretation and Intention Recognition 14. Inquiry and the Formal Underpinnings of Communication Conclusion

Details ISBN0198717180 Author Matthew Stone ISBN-10 0198717180 ISBN-13 9780198717188 Format Hardcover Media Book Subtitle Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Short Title IMAGINATION & CONVENTION Language English Residence US DEWEY 401.4301835 Affiliation Rutgers University UK Release Date 2014-12-11 AU Release Date 2014-12-11 NZ Release Date 2014-12-11 Pages 302 Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-12-11 Imprint Oxford University Press Alternative 9780198797418 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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