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SUMMARY:Pragmatics and Cognitive Science - Deirdre Wilson (UCL)
DTSTART:20061204T101500Z
DTEND:20061204T113000Z
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CONTACT:Napoleon Katsos
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: One of the most exciting developments in research on
  pragmatics in the last twenty years has been the opening up of theoretica
 l issues to experimental investigation. Alongside traditional psycholingui
 stic work on the mechanisms underlying broadly pragmatic processes such as
  disambiguation\, reference resolution\, the interpretation of indirect sp
 eech acts\, implicatures\, metaphor\, irony\, etc.\, we find a growing bod
 y of experimental work specifically designed to test competing theoretical
  pragmatic accounts of these and other pragmatic processes. Much of this w
 ork has involved collaboration among theoretical pragmatists/philosophers 
 and cognitive scientists. However\, collaborative work of this type is sti
 ll in its infancy\, and the coverage of theoretical issues remains rather 
 patchy. In this talk\, I will discuss a few cases where collaboration betw
 een theoretical pragmatists and cognitive scientists has been of real bene
 fit\, a few where the lack of collaboration has been a hindrance (in both 
 directions)\, and a few which seem plausible candidates for future researc
 h. I will end with some thoughts on how ‘pragmatics’ is understood in 
 work of this type.\n\n\nNoveck\, I. & Sperber\, D. 2004. Experimental Prag
 matics. Palgrave\, London.\n\nSperber\, D. & Wilson\, D. 2005. Pragmatics.
  In F. Jackson & M. Smith (eds) Oxford	Handbook of Contemporary Analytic P
 hilosophy. OUP\, Oxford. 468-501.
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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