Meaning and Relevance

by Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson/Sperber

Book Overview

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?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521747481
• ISBN13: 9780521747486
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"