TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints2280
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2280/
A1  - Sperber, Dan
A1  - Wilson, Deirdre
Y1  - 1998///
N2  - 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.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - cognition
KW  -  communication
KW  -  languge of thought
KW  -  lexicon
KW  -  linguistics
KW  -  mind
KW  -  philosophy
KW  -  pragmatics
KW  -  psychology
KW  -  relevance
KW  -  relevance theory
TI  - The Mapping between the Mental and the Public Lexicon
SP  - 184
AV  - public
EP  - 200
ER  -

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