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Author Stenning, Keith.

Title Introduction to cognition and communication / Keith Stenning, Alex Lascarides, and Jo Calder
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 603 pages) : illustrations
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?
Summary 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
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Communication.
Cognitive science.
Language and languages.
Misinformation.
Communication
Cognitive Science
Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Language and languages
Cognitive science
Communication
Communicatie.
Cognitie.
Form Electronic book
Author Lascarides, Alex.
Calder, Jo.
ISBN 9780262284288
0262284286
9781429477659
1429477652
9780262195386
0262195380