32.1233, Books: Experimental Pragmatics: Noveck

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:37:12
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Experimental Pragmatics: Noveck

 


Title: Experimental Pragmatics 
Subtitle: The Making of a Cognitive Science 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	
Author: Ira Noveck

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107446885 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107446885 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107446885 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

How does a listener understand a sarcastic 'That was a wonderful speech' when
the words point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic
interpret 'Some cabs are yellow' as 'Not all cabs are yellow' when the meaning
of 'some' is compatible with 'all'? Pragmatics aims to explain how listeners
draw out a speaker's meaning from utterances, an astonishing feat when one
considers that the words in a sentence hardly suffice for fully comprehending
what the speaker intended. Given the nature of pragmatics, it is going to take
the interdisciplinary firepower of many cognitive sciences - including
philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics and neuroscience - to fully
appreciate this uniquely human ability.  In this book, Ira Noveck, a leading
pioneer in experimental pragmatics, engagingly walks the reader through the
phenomena, the theoretical debates, the experiments as well as the historical
development of this growing academic discipline.
 



1. Defining pragmatics: the what, the how and areas of disagreement; 2.
Grice's monumental proposal and reactions to it; 3. The experimentalist's
mindset; 4. A consideration of experimental techniques; 5. Early experimental
pragmatics; 6. How logical terms can be enriched: exposing semantic-pragmatic
divergences; 7. Grammatical or semantic approaches to scalar implicatures; 8.
Conditionals; 9. Referring; 10. Speaking falsely and getting away with it:
post-Gricean accounts of metaphor and other lexical adjustments; 11. Irony:
shifting attention and reading intentions; 12. Pragmatic abilities among those
with autism; 13. More topics for experimental pragmatics: an all you can eat
buffet; 14. Opinionated conclusions and considerations for the future.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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