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Language and Equilibrium
In this work, Prashant Parikh offers a new account of meaning for natural language. He argues that equilibrium, or balance among multiple interacting forces, is a key attribute of language and meaning and shows how to derive the meaning of an utterance from first principles by modelling it as a system of interdependent games.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281263
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- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) :illustrations
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Intentions in communication
"A Bradford book."Intentions in Communication brings together major theorists from artificial intelligence and computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology whose work develops the foundations for an account of the role of intentions in a comprehensive theory of communication. It demonstrates, for the first time, the emerging cooperation among disciplines concerned with the fundamen…
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- 0585363692
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations.
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- 005 INT
Presumptive meanings :the theory of generalized conversational implicature
This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpret…
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- 9780262278256
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 480 pages).
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What Counts: Focus and Quantification
In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure…
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- 9780262275293
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- 1 online resource (x, 166 pages).
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Getting Through: The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication
Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate -- how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to speak other languages, but do we truly understand what we are saying? How much detail should we offer when someone asks how we are? How close should we stand to our conversational partners? Is an invitation genuine or just pro form…
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- 9780262340601
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- 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) :illustrations
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Words without meaning
"A Bradford book."According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an understanding of the meanings of words. Christopher Gauker rejects this conception of language, arguing that it rests on an unt…
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- 9780262273596
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- 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages).
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