Meaning and Relevance Paperback - Softcover

Wilson/Sperber, Deirdre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521747481 ISBN 13: 9780521747486

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Críticas:

'... 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.' François 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

Biografía del autor:

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.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521747481
• ISBN 13: 9780521747486
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398