Cognitive pragmatics: The mental processes of communication

Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication

Agent communication pragmatics: the cognitive coherence approach

Different approaches have investigated the syntax and semantic of agent communication languages. However, these approaches have not indicated how agents should dynamically use communications. Instead of filling this pragmatics gap, most approaches have mainly focused on the “structure” of dialogues even though developers are more interested in agents’ capabilities of having “useful” automated c...

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...

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...

Mental model theory and pragmatics

Johnson-Laird & Byrne (1991; 1993) present a theory of human deductive reasoning based on the notion of mental models. Unfortunately, the theory is incomplete. The present commentary argues that pragmatic considerations, particularly of the type discussed in Sperber and Wilson (1995), can complement the theory. Johnson-Laird & Byrne (1991) (JL&B) conclude their book by claiming that their theor...