Meaning and relevance

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Meaning and relevance

Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber

Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-372) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts that humans are capable of entertaining and conveying? How should we analyse literal meaning, approximations, metaphors and ironies? Is the ability to understand speakers' meanings rooted in a more general human ability to understand other minds? How do these abilities interact in evolution and in cognitive development? Meaning and Relevance sets out to answer these and other questions, enriching and updating relevance theory and exploring its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies.

目次

  • Introduction: 1. Pragmatics
  • Part I. Relevance and Meaning: 2. The mapping between the mental and the public lexicon
  • 3. Truthfulness and relevance
  • 4. Rhetoric and relevance
  • 5. A deflationary account of metaphors
  • 6. Explaining irony
  • Part II. Explicit and Implicit Communication: 7. Linguistic form and relevance
  • 8. Pragmatics and time
  • 9. Recent approaches to bridging: truth, coherence, relevance
  • 10. Mood and the analysis of non-declarative sentences
  • 11. Metarepresentation in linguistic communication
  • Part III. Cross-disciplinary Themes: 12. Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading
  • 13. Testing the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance
  • 14. The why and how of experimental pragmatics
  • 15. A pragmatic perspective on the evolution of language.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB08905688
  • ISBN
    • 9780521747486
    • 9780521766777
  • LCCN
    2011032500
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 382 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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