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Introduction to cognition and communication /

An introduction to the cognitive sciences through the exploration of one subject-human communication-from the perspectives of the component disciplines of cognitive science-psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and AI.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stenning, Keith
Other Authors: Lascarides, Alex, Calder, Jo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Communication.
Cognitive science.
Language and languages.
Misinformation.
Communication
Cognitive Science
Language
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262284288
0262284286
9781429477659
1429477652
9780262195386
0262195380
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Communication and cognitive science
  • 2. A (too?) simple model of communication
  • 3. Looking for certainties
  • 4. Managing with uncertainties
  • 5. Content, context, and formal systems
  • 6. Computation and representation
  • 7. Representation : inside the black box
  • 8. Describing language
  • 9. Words, phrases, and meanings
  • 10. Linking form and meanings : grammars
  • 11. Ambiguity
  • 12. Language in machines
  • 13. Language in people
  • 14. Finding what a pronoun refers to
  • 15. Presuppositions
  • 16. Juxtaposing sentences
  • 17. Processing dialogue
  • 18. Graphical communication
  • 19. Where have all the qualia gone?

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