Imagination and Convention
| Author | : Ernest LePore |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780198717188 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0198717180 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (180 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Imagination and Convention by : Ernest LePore
Download or read book Imagination and Convention written by Ernest LePore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.