Speakers tend to compose their utterances in such a way that the
message they want to get across is hardly ever fully encoded by the
meanings of the words and the grammar they use. Instead speakers
rely on hearers adding conceptual and emotive content while
interpreting the contextually appropriate meanings and intentions
behind utterances. This insight, which is of course particularly
relevant in all kinds of indirect, figurative or humorous talk,
lies at the heart of the linguistic discipline of pragmatics. If
pragmatics is the study of meaning-in-context, then cognitive
pragmatics can be broadly defined as encompassing the study of the
cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of
meaning-in-context. While it would seem only natural that
pragmatics as such should have addressed such cognitive issues
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discipline in the philosophy of language that psychological aspects
have not been in the pragmatic limelight to date. Being part of the
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linguistics, clinical linguistics and historical linguistics. The
volume is divided into four parts which tackle the following
questions: Part I: The cognitive principles of pragmatic competence
What are the general cognitive principles underlying pragmatic
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of utterances? What are the cognitive underpinnings of language
users' ability to compute or infer intended meanings in the role of
hearers and to give hints as to how to decode intended meanings in
the role of speakers? Part II: The psychology of pragmatics What
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construal of meaning-in-context on the basis of encoded messages?
How is pragmatic competence acquired in childhood? What are the
types, sources and effects of pragmatic disorders, i.e. impairments
of pragmatic competence? Part III: The construal of non-explicit
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non-explicit and indirect utterances? How do we process figurative
meanings, humour and gestures? Part IV: The emergence of linguistic
structures from meaning-in-context What are the repercussions of
the (repeated) construal of context-dependent meanings on
linguistic structures and the linguistic system? How does the
system change under the influence of the construal of meanings in
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