Attentional Pragmatics: A pragmatic approach to exhaustivity

Pragmatic Reasoning. Pragmatic Semantics and Semantic Pragmatics

This paper is concerned with the conceptual foundations of pragmatic reasoning (context-dependent reasoning). A general pragmatic semantics (a semantic analysis which includes a pragmatic parameter) is given for pragmatic reasoning, the logical properties of the various forms of pragmatic reasoning are discussed, as are many examples. The semantic pragmatics (the general study of choosing or in...

A Pragmatics-Based Approach to Ellipsis Resolution

Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently during information-seeking dialogs in task domains. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances. Discourse expectations and focusing heuristics are used to facilitate recognition of an information-seeker's intent in uttering an elliptical fragment. The ellipsis is comprehended by identifying both the as...

A Pragmatic Approach to Conflict

This paper proposes an alternative approach to that of considering conflict as a foremost problem to be solved in a system made up of multiple entities, by suggesting to integrate it without necessarily running a serious risk. This position is supported by preliminary experimental results and by inter-disciplinary research reviews.

A Pragmatic Approach to Superwarfarin Intoxication in a Resource Constraint Setting; a Case Report

A Unitary Approach to Lexical Pragmatics

According to recent work in the new field of lexical pragmatics, the meanings of words are frequently pragmatically adjusted and fine-tuned in context, so that their contribution to the proposition expressed is different from their lexically encoded sense. Well-known examples include lexical narrowing (e.g. ‘drink’ used to mean ALCOHOLIC DRINK), approximation (or loosening) (e.g. ‘flat’ used to...