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Experimental Pragmatics - The Making of a Cognitive Science (Paperback)
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Experimental Pragmatics - The Making of a Cognitive Science (Paperback)
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How does a listener understand a sarcastic 'That was a wonderful
speech' when the words point to a positive review? Why do students
of introductory logic interpret 'Some cabs are yellow' as 'Not all
cabs are yellow' when the meaning of 'some' is compatible with
'all'? Pragmatics aims to explain how listeners draw out a
speaker's meaning from utterances, an astonishing feat when one
considers that the words in a sentence hardly suffice for fully
comprehending what the speaker intended. Given the nature of
pragmatics, it is going to take the interdisciplinary firepower of
many cognitive sciences - including philosophy, experimental
psychology, linguistics and neuroscience - to fully appreciate this
uniquely human ability. In this book, Ira Noveck, a leading pioneer
in experimental pragmatics, engagingly walks the reader through the
phenomena, the theoretical debates, the experiments as well as the
historical development of this growing academic discipline.
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