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  title info:
    title: Meaning and relevance
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Deirdre
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Sperber, Dan
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: c2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "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 xpectations 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"-- Provided by publisher.
  note: Deidre Wilson and Dan Sperber
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-372) and index
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: Inference
  subject:
    topic: Relevance
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  classification: P325 .W55 2012
  identifier: 0521747481 (paperback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0521766778 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780521747486 (paperback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780521766777 (hardback : alk. paper)
  record info:
    record creation date: 130516
    record change date: 20130919093000.0
    record identifier: 0000082972