COGNITIVE PRAGMATICS: APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES

Cognitive Science: Emerging Perspectives and Approaches

Cognitive impairment and pragmatics

BACKGROUND One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS The breakdown of illocutionary and perlocutionary functions is one of the most prominent external features of cognitive impai...

Cognitive Mechanics And Cognitive Pragmatics ~ jleBooks.com

Written by leading experts in the field, this volume presents some of the latest advances in cognitive informatics and cognitive computing. The chapters are based on selected and refined papers from the In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts ...

Pragmatics And AAC Approaches To Conversational Goals

The modelling of pragmatic features of natural conversation to help AAC users achieve a range of social conversational goals is considered in relation to the development of an AAC system based on text pre-storage and retrieval. Problems facing designers of AAC systems are highlighted in the hope that insights from NLP may contribute to solutions. 1 Conversational goals People have a variety of ...

Quantiative Social-Cognitive Experimental Pragmatics

This thesis argues for a quantitative, social-cognitive, and experimental approach to pragmatics. A formal decision-theoretic framework is proposed to model language production and interpretation in the context of social cognition. The framework is applied to several case studies: (1) use of referential expressions, (2) descriptive use of positive forms of gradable adjectives, and (3) use of qu...