Imagination and Convention by Ernie Lepore, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

What do speakers mean? What do they convey? What do they reveal? How do they invite us to think? Communication exploits conventional rules, deliberate choices, and many other faculties. How? A common answer invokes simple meanings and general ways to reinterpret them, as in H. P. Grice'stheory of conversational implicature. Lepore and Stone show such answers are unsatisfactory. Instead, they argue that language provides diverse tools for making ideas public, and that communication recruits distinct kinds of imagination. The work synthesizes results from across cognitive scienceinto a profoundly new account of meaning in language. | Imagination and Convention by Ernie Lepore, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters