Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models

Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models
Author: Philippe de Brabanter
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1848556500

Reconciles armchair theorising about the semantics-pragmatics interface with hypotheses about cognitive architecture. This book concerns with the cognitive counterparts of lexical meanings. It also explores the links between moods and forces. It looks at the epistemological status of semantic theory from the point of view of human psychology.

Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models

Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models
Author: Philippe de Brabanter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2009
Genre: Pragmatics
ISBN: 9781282271401

Reconciles armchair theorising about the semantics-pragmatics interface with hypotheses about cognitive architecture. This book concerns with the cognitive counterparts of lexical meanings. It also explores the links between moods and forces. It looks at the epistemological status of semantic theory from the point of view of human psychology.

Simultaneous Interpretation

Simultaneous Interpretation
Author: Robin Setton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1999-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027285470

Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive semantics and pragmatics) than on the traditional information-processing approaches of cognitive psychology, and shows SI to be a valuable source of data on language and cognition.Starting from semantic representations of input and output in samples of professional SI from Chinese and German into English, the analysis explains the classic phenomena – anticipation, restoration of the implicit-explicit balance, and communicative re-packaging (‘re-ostension’) of the discourse – in terms of an intermediate cognitive model in working memory, allowing a more unitary view of resource management in the SI task. Relevance-theoretic analysis of the input discourse reveals rich pragmatic information guiding the construction of the appropriate contexts and the speaker’s underlying intentionalities. The course of meaning assembly is reconstructed in annotated synchronised transcripts.

Cognitive Modeling

Cognitive Modeling
Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270007

This monograph studies cognitive operations on cognitive models across levels and domains of meaning construction. It explores in what way the same set of cognitive operations, either in isolation or in combination, account for meaning representation whether obtained on the basis of inferential activity or through constructional composition. As a consequence, it makes explicit links between constructional and figurative meaning. The pervasiveness of cognitive operations is explored across the levels of meaning construction (argument, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure) distinguished by the Lexical Constructional Model. This model is a usage-based approach to language that reconciles insights from functional and cognitive linguistics and offers a unified account of the principles and constraints that regulate both inferential activity and the constructional composition of meaning. This book is of value to scholars with an interest in linguistic evidence of cognitive activity in meaning construction. The contents relate to the fields of Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Construction Grammar, Functional Linguistics, and Inferential Pragmatics.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Modeling
Author: Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004439226

These lectures discuss cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. It puts forward a unified analytical framework for several linguistic phenomena, including different types of constructions, traditional implicature and speech acts, and figures of speech like metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony.

Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition

Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition
Author: Sophia Marmaridou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2000-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027282560

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.

From Utterances to Speech Acts

From Utterances to Speech Acts
Author: Mikhail Kissine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107328349

Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component of human communication have received little attention. This book fills the gap by providing a model of the psychological processes involved in interpreting and understanding speech acts. The theory is framed in naturalistic terms and is supported by data on language development and on autism spectrum disorders. Mikhail Kissine does not presuppose any specific background and addresses a crucial pragmatic phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective. This is a valuable resource for academic researchers and graduate and undergraduate students in pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.

Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition

Pragmatic Meaning and Cognition
Author: Sophia S. A. Marmaridou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027250871

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.

Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture

Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture
Author: Jack Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009033336

This Element helps understand the role of gesture in communication by answer the following questions positively: Do gestures communicate? Do people produce gestures with an intention to communicate? It uses evidence from experimental and neuroscientific studies to argue that people produce gestures because doing so improves such predictions.

Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures

Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures
Author: Annalisa Baicchi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 152750039X

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and it also depicts the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives, such as language variation and cultural models, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse and the role of empirical work in cognitive linguistics.