عنوان

Meaning and relevance /

(Number (ISBN

9781139028370 (ebook)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521747486 (paperback)

Erroneous ISBN

9780521766777 (hardback)

Number

b393941

Title Proper

Meaning and relevance /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages) :

Other Physical Details

digital, PDF file(s)

Text of Note

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Text of Note

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.

Parallel Title

Meaning & Relevance.

Cognition.

Inference.

Relevance.

Semantics.

Class number

Book number

Wilson, Deirdre

Sperber, Dan

Date of Transaction

20151005020622.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y