?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Mapping+between+the+Mental+and+the+Public+Lexicon&rft.creator=Sperber%2C+Dan&rft.creator=Wilson%2C+Deirdre&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=We+argue+that+the+presence+of+a+word+in+an+utterance+serves+as+starting+point+for+a+relevance+guided++inferential+process+that+results+in+the+construction+of+a+contextually+appropriate+sense.+The+linguistically+encoded+sense+of+a+word+does+not+serve+as+its+default+interpretation.+The+cases+where+the+contextually+appropriate+sense+happens+to+be+identical+to+this+linguistic+sense+have+no+particular+theoretical+significance.+We+explore+some+of+the+consequences+of+this+view.+One+of+these+consequences+is+that+there+may+be+many+more+mentally+represented+concepts+than+there+are+linguistically+encoded+concepts.&rft.publisher=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.contributor=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.contributor=Boucher%2C+Jill&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2280%2F1%2Fmapping.htm&rft.identifier=++Sperber%2C+Dan+and+Wilson%2C+Deirdre++(1998)+The+Mapping+between+the+Mental+and+the+Public+Lexicon.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2280%2F