Detalles del libro
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.
- Provides researchers and students with easy access to Wilson and Sperber's most important work on relevance theory since the 1980s
- Proposes a highly original account of communication - it will be a must-read for those studying and researching the subject
- Has practical implications for psycholinguistics and for research on the development of communication, and communicative impairments, for example in autism
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Autor/es Wilson, Deirdre / Sperber, Dan
- ISBN13 9780521747486
- ISBN10 0521747481
- Páginas 382
- Año de Edición 2012
- Idioma Inglés
Meaning and Relevance
- Autor/a Deirdre Wilson , Dan Sperber
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE U.P
- ISBN 9780521747486
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