Imagination and Convention

Imagination and Convention
Author: Ernest LePore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198717180


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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.