A Cognitive-pragmatic Approach to Puns

A Cognitive-pragmatic Approach to Puns

The present paper is intended to provide a unified account for the interpretation of puns from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective. In recent years a few scholars have delved into the processing mechanism of puns, but none of them has demonstrably elucidated the cognitive psychological foundation of puns and the development of our cognitive strategy for pun interpretation. Through careful analyse...

A Pragmatic Cognitive System Engineering Approach to Model Dynamic

The Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier has undertaken R&D work to provide Canadian warships with a revolutionary decision support capability explicitly designed to make the automation transparent and provide warfighters with effective and trusted decision support. This effort uses cognitive system engineering (CSE) as the essential design framework. CSE approaches are well suited to deal with deci...

Validating a Pragmatic Approach to Cognitive Screening in Stroke Prevention Clinics Using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is used commonly to identify cognitive impairment (CI), but there are multiple published cut points for normal and abnormal. We seek to validate a pragmatic approach to screening for moderate-severe CI, by classifying patients into high-, intermediate-, and low-risk categories. METHODS A total of 390 participants attending an aca...

A Pragmatic Approach to Conflict

This paper proposes an alternative approach to that of considering conflict as a foremost problem to be solved in a system made up of multiple entities, by suggesting to integrate it without necessarily running a serious risk. This position is supported by preliminary experimental results and by inter-disciplinary research reviews.

A Pragmatic Approach to Superwarfarin Intoxication in a Resource Constraint Setting; a Case Report