Imagination and Convention

Imagination and Convention
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 305
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198717188
ISBN-13 : 0198717180
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)
DOWNLOAD EBOOK
Book Synopsis Imagination and Convention by : Ernest LePore

Download or read book Imagination and Convention written by Ernest LePore and published by . 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.


Imagination and Convention Related Books

Imagination and Convention
Language: en
Pages: 305

Imagination and Convention

Authors: Ernest LePore
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 wo
Experimental Pragmatics
Language: en
Pages: 281

Experimental Pragmatics

Authors: Ira Noveck
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Explains the phenomena, theoretical debates, experiments and historical development of experimental pragmatics, which investigates how utterances communicate a
Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes
Language: en
Pages: 221

Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes

Authors: Jamey Heit
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the heig
From What Is to What If
Language: en
Pages: 242

From What Is to What If

Authors: Rob Hopkins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-15 - Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Big ideas that just might save the world”—The Guardian The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinki
Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics
Language: en
Pages: 330

Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics

Authors: Gerhard Preyer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods. Philosophers think through the relationship between language and the world; l