Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition

✍ Scribed by Sophia S. A. Marmaridou

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 72
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a good overview of philosophical and cognitive approaches to language use and meaning. A synthesis of such approaches leads to a dynamic concept of pragmatic meaning which is on the one hand grounded in cognition and motivated by linguistic and cultural convention and, on the other, creates a framework for studying the interactive and social dimensions of the development of meaning in linguistic communication. Through an experientialist approach based on connectionist models, the author shows that by internalizing pragmatic meaning people become social agents who reproduce, challenge or change their social parameters during interaction.Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition is suitable as a course book in Pragmatics and Semantics and of interest to those concerned with cognitive models and dynamic and social aspects of linguistic communication

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 1. Acknowledgments, pxi
2. Introduction, p1
3. 1. Theoretical Perspectives on Pragmatic Meaning, p13
4. 2. Towards an Experiential Approach to Pragmatic Meaning, p42
5. 3. On deixis, p65
6. 4. On presupposition, p117
7. 5. On Speech Acts, p163
8. 6. On Implicature, p223
9. Conclusions, p273
10. Notes, p281
11. References, p288
12. Subject Index, p311
13. Name Index, p318

✦ Subjects

Pragmatics Cognition Grammar Social Science Pragmatique LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES Linguistics Sociolinguistics Pragmatiek Cognitie Deixis Präsupposition Semantik Pragmatik Implikation