Cognition and Pragmatics

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| University of Antwerp
ORCID logo | University of Helsinki
ORCID logo | University of Antwerp
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The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this third volume focuses on the interface between language and cognition. Language use is impossible without the mobilization of a large variety of cognitive processes, each serving a different purpose. During the last half century cognitive approaches to language have been particularly successful, and the broad spectrum of contributions to this volume testify to this success. As cognitive approaches to language are by definition a subset of the larger enterprise of cognitive science, a contribution on this general topic sets the stage. This is joined by a chapter on cognitive grammar, a theoretical study of the architecture of human language that is deeply inspired by general cognitive principles. A chapter on experimentation offers a crash-course on basic issues of experimental design and on the rationale behind statistical testing in general and the most important statistical tests in particular, offering a methodological toolkit for understanding many of the other contributions. Different chapters cover a broad range of topics: language acquisition, psycholinguistics, specialized topics within the latter field (e.g. the bilingual mental lexicon, categorization), and aspects of language awareness. Some chapters home in on what have become indispensible perspectives on the cognitive underpinnings of language: the way language is represented and processed in the human brain and simulation studies. The ever-growing success of the latter type of studies is exemplified, for instance, by the highly flourishing connectionist tradition and the more general paradigm of artificial intelligence, each of which is dealt with in a separate contribution.
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 3] 2009.  xvii, 399 pp.
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“The chapters are consistently well written and relatively easy to read. [...] The volume is a valuable contribution to the Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights series.”
“This excellent work is the third volume of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights. [...] Cognition and Pragmatics is a monumental endeavour in the field of language and cognition. The editors state that the contributions to the volume can be viewed as encyclopaedic articles with the most relevant information but can also be used as teaching tools and as reading materials for a wide range of courses. I totally subscribe this opinion and invite you to use the volume according to your own purposes, be it to get a wide overview of the field or to focus on a specific sub-item. In this regard, although translation is not explicitly addressed in the book, translators and researchers in specialised translation will undoubtedly find a source of inspiration both on the cognitive-based theoretical proposals and on the empirical approaches to science which are clearly exposed in the volume.”
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Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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