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

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