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Utterance interpretation and cognitive models /

Utterance interpretation and cognitive models / edited by Philippe De Brabanter and Mikhail Kissine. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (xxi, 277 pages) : illustrations. - Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, v. 20 1472-7870 ; . - Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 20. Language and Linguistics Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2012, ISBN: 9789004248694. .

"This volume originated in a workshop organised in Brussels on June 23-24. 2006."--P. xiii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material / 1: On the Psychological Reality of Minimal Propositions / 2: What Use Is ‘What Is Said’? / 3: The Contextualist Surprise / 4: More than Words / 5: Predicate Indexicality and Context Dependence / 6: Semantics with Clusters of Properties / 7: Discourse Evocation: Its Cognitive Foundations and Its Role in Speech and Texts / 8: Children’s Enrichments of Conjunctive Sentences in Context / 9: Relevance, Assertion and Possible Worlds: A Cognitive Approach to the Spanish Subjunctive / Philippe De Brabanter and Mikhail Kissine -- Fernando Martínez-Manrique and Agustín Vicente -- Marina Terkourafi -- Stefano Predelli -- Elisabetta Lalumera -- Peter Bosch -- Galit W. Sassoon -- Marc Dominicy -- Ira Noveck , Coralie Chevallier , Florelle Chevaux , Julien Musolino and Lewis Bott -- Mark Jary.

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This book, Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models , is a collection of papers that stems from the conference of the same name held at the Free University of Brussels in June 2006. Our main objective is to reconcile armchair theorising about the semantics-pragmatics interface with hypotheses about cognitive architecture. For that reason, the papers in the collection place some of the hottest questions in contemporary philosophy of language within the scope of a psychologically plausible theory of human communication. The collection is articulated into three parts. The first concerns the cognitive counterparts of lexical meanings. The second explores the links between moods and forces. The third looks at the epistemological status of semantic theory from the point of view of human psychology.

9789004253148

10.1163/9789004253148 DOI


Semantics--Congresses.
Pragmatics--Congresses.
Psycholinguistics--Congresses.

P325 / .U88 2009

401.9