creators_name: Tirassa, Maurizio
creators_name: Vallana, Marianna
creators_id: maurizio.tirassa@unito.it
editors_name: Cummings, Louise
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2010-07-29 01:51:45
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:38
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title: Representation and computation
ispublished: pub
subjects: bio-ani-cog
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: ling-comput
subjects: phil-epist
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
abstract: This is an encyclopedia entry and does not include an abstract.
date: 2010
date_type: published
publication: The pragmatics encyclopedia
publisher: Routledge
pagerange: 399-402
refereed: TRUE
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