TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Deirdre
AU  - Sperber,Dan
TI  - Meaning and Relevance
SN  - 9781139028370 (ebook)
AV  - P325 .W479 2012
U1  - 401/.43 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Relevance
KW  - Inference
KW  - Cognition
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139028370
ER  -