Experimental Pragmatics

Ai, Wang

doi:10.1057/9780230524125

2004

DOI: 10.1057/9780230524125

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Experimental Pragmatics

Wang Ai

Abstract: This paper considers the implications for philosophy of some recent approaches to pragmatics (with a focus on relevance theory) and makes two main points. First, the widening gap between sentence meaning and speaker's meaning increasingly brings into question a basic assumption of much philosophy of language: that linguistic semantics provides direct insight into the structure of human thoughts. Second, by describing comprehension as a richly context-dependent form of inference, pragmatics provides an illustra… Show more

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Kennison

2013

The Encyclopedia of Cross‐Cultural Psychology

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Pragmatics is the term used to identify the social rules for language use. These rules are dictated by social situations and can vary by context. Consequently, the rules vary across cultures. Pragmatics includes both verbal and non‐verbal aspects for conversing with others. Communicating the intent of a statement in a conversation not only includes the specific words used, but also how the words are produced, including the body language and facial expressions a speaker uses to deliver a statement. Examples of non‐verbal forms of communication used by speakers of American English include gestures, such as an individual throwing his or her hands in the air to convey giving up during an argument, or quickly raising and lowering the shoulders to indicate I don't know . We need both types of indicators to communicate effectively with others.

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Relevance Theory

Maillat¹

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy

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Relevance theory is a theoretical model of human communication that focuses specifically on aspects of meaning construction and interpretation. It belongs in the field of linguistic pragmatics and brings the insight of language studies together with those of cognitive sciences. Relevance theory provides an empirically testable model of the inferential processes that determine meaning in context. Its explanatory power has been used to cover numerous aspects of human communication. The main theoretical tenets are first put into perspective and defined. Some key insights of particular interest for communication science are then explored in connection with multimodal communication, media studies, and argumentation theory.

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Wharton¹

2018

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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The “frame” problem in logic presents the following challenge: produce a logical formula that describes the effects of a particular action without having to write corresponding formulae for the trivially obvious noneffects of that action. The problem has epistemological consequences. When processing a new fact, how do we sift through the vast amount of irrelevant information we have at our disposal and decide what is relevant? This entry addresses this question by focusing on the concept of relevance as used in Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson's relevance theory. Relevance theory is an approach to cognition and communication that has had a huge influence not only in pragmatics but also in a range of different disciplines. The entry places the theory in its historical context, presents the central tenets of the theory, and explores a range of applications that relevance theory has in the natural and social sciences.

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Experimental Pragmatics

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