Cognitive impairment and pragmatics

Cognitive impairment and pragmatics

BACKGROUND One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS The breakdown of illocutionary and perlocutionary functions is one of the most prominent external features of cognitive impai...

Cognitive Mechanics And Cognitive Pragmatics ~ jleBooks.com

Written by leading experts in the field, this volume presents some of the latest advances in cognitive informatics and cognitive computing. The chapters are based on selected and refined papers from the In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts ...

Quantiative Social-Cognitive Experimental Pragmatics

This thesis argues for a quantitative, social-cognitive, and experimental approach to pragmatics. A formal decision-theoretic framework is proposed to model language production and interpretation in the context of social cognition. The framework is applied to several case studies: (1) use of referential expressions, (2) descriptive use of positive forms of gradable adjectives, and (3) use of qu...

Agent communication pragmatics: the cognitive coherence approach

Different approaches have investigated the syntax and semantic of agent communication languages. However, these approaches have not indicated how agents should dynamically use communications. Instead of filling this pragmatics gap, most approaches have mainly focused on the “structure” of dialogues even though developers are more interested in agents’ capabilities of having “useful” automated c...

Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication