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Pragmatics in the Health Sciences
This Element aims to address a gap in the literature at the intersection of linguistics, particularly pragmatics, and health sciences, such as speech and language pathology.
Greta Mazzaggio
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Pragmatic experimental philosophy
Philosophical Psychology, 2014This paper considers three package deals combining views in philosophy of mind, meta-philosophy, and experimental philosophy. The most familiar of these packages gives center-stage to pumping intuitions about fanciful cases, but that package involves problematic commitments both to a controversial descriptivist theory of reference and to intuitions ...
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2015
Abstract This chapter describes some of the important research in experimental pragmatics, most notably studies related to recovering speakers’ intentions, inferring conversational implicatures, and the role of common ground in discourse understanding.
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Abstract This chapter describes some of the important research in experimental pragmatics, most notably studies related to recovering speakers’ intentions, inferring conversational implicatures, and the role of common ground in discourse understanding.
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The pragmatics of information retrieval experimentation, revisited
Information Processing & Management, 1992Abstract The decisions that must be made by an investigator in carrying out an information retrieval experiment are described. Guidance is provided on a number of issues, specifically determining the need for testing, choosing the type of test (laboratory or operational), defining the variables, developing or using databases, finding queries ...
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EXPERIMENTAL AND PRAGMATIC APPROACHES TO PATTERN RECOGNITION
Kybernetes, 1978A purely theoretical approach has been found to be of limited value in the solution of practical Pattern Recognition problems. Difficulties arise when relating infinite mathematics to reality, e.g. “algorithmic convergence” must be replaced by a vaguer notion of “satisfactory performance”.
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Experimental Pragmatics: a Gricean turn in the study of language
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2008Discerning the meaning of an utterance requires not only mastering grammar and knowing the meanings of words but also understanding the communicative (i.e., pragmatic) features of language. Although it has been an ever present aspect of linguistic analyses and discussions, it is only over the last ten years or so that cognitive scientists have been ...
Noveck, Ira A, Reboul, Anne
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The need for Pragmatic Experimentation in Educational Research
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2007The randomised controlled trial (RCT) is the best method for evaluating changes in educational practice. Nevertheless, it has been criticised because its results often have poor ecological validity. This valid criticism can be addressed by designing the RCT so that it mimics normal teaching practice as closely as possible, while retaining the benefits ...
Carole J. Torgerson, David J. Torgerson
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Experimental Pragmatics: An Introduction for Philosophers
Philosophy Compass, 2014Abstract In the past several decades, psychologists and linguists have begun experimentally investigating linguistic pragmatic phenomena. They share the assumption that the best way to study the use of language in context incorporates an experimental methodology, here understood to comprise controlled studies and careful field ...
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Mecanoo—experimental Pragmatism by Pietro Valle
Journal of Urban Design, 2009Milan, Skira Editore, £17.95, 212 pp., (pbk), ISBN-10: 887624655X, ISBN-13: 978-8876246555 For more than two decades The Netherlands has asserted itself as the most modern of European countries—the...
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