Pragmatics of information (1)

Pragmatics of negation 1 Running head : PRAGMATICS OF NEGATION

Negation is a fundamental element of language and logical systems, but processing negative sentences can be challenging. Early investigations suggested that this difficulty was due to the representational challenge of adding an additional logical element to a proposition, but in more recent work, supportive contexts mitigate the processing costs of negation, suggesting a pragmatic explanation. ...

Pragmatics Influence Children's Use of Majority Information

Do children always conform to a majority’s testimony, or do the pragmatics of that testimony matter? We investigate children’s reasoning about mapping a novel word to a referent in an object-labeling task. Across four conditions, we modified the testimony in an object-labeling task, to account for pragmatic principles, so that the majority does and does not provide an explicit opinion about the...

Information State Update: Semantics or Pragmatics?

We argue for an approach which treats the compositional semantic content of an utterance as including its basic dialogue update effects – those which can be derived entirely from its semantic and syntactic properties. This allows us to capture the distinction between these integral semantic contextual effects and those pragmatic effects which can only be determined from the interaction between ...

The pragmatics of negation simulation 1

2 Part 1 Truth - Conditional Pragmatics