Dialogizing Communication through Pragmatic Markers

Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

Normal speech dysfluencies. The disorder must be distinguished from normal dysflu­ encies that occur frequently in young children, which include whole-word or phrase rep­ etitions (e.g., 'T want, I want ice cream"), incomplete phrases, interjections, unfilled pauses, and parenthetical remarks. If these difficulties increase in frequency or complexity as the child grows older, a diagnosis of chi...

Explicit Communication and ‘Free’ Pragmatic Enrichment

away from, context-sensitivity when presented (out of context) with an apparently perfectly homophonous ‘S but not S’? I don’t know, but two considerations seem relevant to me in understanding what is going on here. First, recall García-Carpintero’s point discussed above that, although encoded sentence meaning is usually not propositional it can determine a propositional content and this propos...

Pragmatic Reasoning through Semantic Inference

A number of recent proposals have used techniques from game theory and Bayesian cognitive science to formalize Gricean pragmatic reasoning (Frank & Goodman, 2012; Franke, 2009; Goodman & Stuhlmüller, 2013; Jäger, 2012). We discuss two phenomena which pose a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures (Horn, 1984) and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford’s constraint (Chierc...

Pragmatic requirements communication: the handshaking approach

Pragmatic Web as Communication Design Practice

The Pragmatic Web is seen as a direction for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web. Realizing the vision of the Pragmatic Web, however, requires a shift in thinking about technology as a means for designing communication (which is making forms of interactivity possible that may otherwise be difficult or impossible). Some lessons from theory and research on Pragmatics provide grounds for unde...