Meaning and Relevance by Deirdre Wilson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Meaning and Relevance by Deirdre Wilson, Daniel Sperber Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. This book enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Deirdre Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London and Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo. Dan Sperber is Emeritus Directeur de Recherche at the Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris and part-time university professor in the departments of philosophy and cognitive science at the Central European University, Budapest. Table of Contents 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. Review ... significantly expands upon [the authors] groundbreaking 1986/1995 book Relevance: Communication and Cognition, and nicely situates relevance theory within contemporary developments in cognitive science ... a masterful scholarly achievement that correctly places mind and relevance as the essential site for the scientific study of meaning and cognition. Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, University of California, Santa Cruz Wilson and Sperber are not merely the promoters of an influential framework in linguistic pragmatics, which this book beautifully illustrates; their pioneering work has implications for a wide range of disciplines, from evolutionary psychology to literary theory, and is of special interest to philosophers of language and mind. Francois Recanati, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris Twenty-five years ago, Sperber and Wilson published Relevance, Communication and Cognition: this was a major breakthrough in pragmatics. Philosophers and cognitive scientists intrigued by the subtle mapping between concepts and words should delve right away into their new Meaning and Relevance. Pierre Jacob, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris Review Quote Wilson and Sperber are not merely the promoters of an influential framework in linguistic pragmatics, which this book beautifully illustrates; their pioneering work has implications for a wide range of disciplines, from evolutionary psychology to literary theory, and is of special interest to philosophers of language and mind. Franois Recanati, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris Promotional "Headline" Enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies. Description for Bookstore Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. This book enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies. Description for Library Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. This book enriches and updates relevance theory and explores its implications for linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and literary studies. Details ISBN0521747481 Author Daniel Sperber Short Title MEANING & RELEVANCE Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521747481 ISBN-13 9780521747486 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 401.43 Year 2012 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2012-03-22 Birth 1961 Affiliation University College, London Pages 395 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2012-03-22 AU Release Date 2012-03-22 NZ Release Date 2012-03-22 Illustrations 11 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, unspecified We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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