Csaba Pléh | John Benjamins

Pléh, Csaba 2019 Review of Noveck (2018): Experimental Pragmatics. The Making of a Cognitive Science Pragmatics & Cognition 26:2/3, pp. 474–481 | Review

The review of Noveck’s Experimental Pragmatics shows that the book is a much-needed synthesis. It provides a mostly ToM- and Grice-based interpretation of experimental results in scalar inference, deixis, and logical errors. The main missing points are related to an almost exclusively descriptive… read more

Pléh, Csaba 2015 János László (1948–2015) Scientific Study of Literature 5:1, pp. 129–135 | Article

Pléh, Csaba 2010 Chapter 8. On the importance of goals in child language: Acquisition and impairment data from Hungarian Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 147–160 | Article

Modern psycholinguistic studies started to use experimental and child language observational data concerning the language of space to obtain evidence for the primacy issue: who leads in the articulation of spatial language: language or spatial cognition? Following the model of Landau and… read more

Lukács, Ágnes, Csaba Pléh and Mihály Racsmány 2004 Language in Hungarian children with Williams syndrome Williams Syndrome across Languages, Bartke, Susanne and Julia Siegmüller (eds.), pp. 187–220 | Article

Pléh, Csaba 2000 Modularity and pragmatics: Some simple and some complicated ways Pragmatics 10:4, pp. 415–438 | Article

The modular approach to language in its career of 30 years had alternating and rivaling views regarding the place of pragmatics. A first approach basically is the one outlined by Fodor (1983) that would pack pragmatic aspects of language use under the rubric of the mushy General Problem Solver… read more

Pléh, Csaba 1989 Formal connexity and pragmatic cohesion in anaphora interpretation Text and Discourse Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984, Conte, Maria-Elisabeth, János Sánder Petöfi and Emel Sözer (eds.), pp. 137–152 | Article

Pléh, Csaba 1988 Two conceptions on the crisis of psychology: Vygotsky and Bühler Karl Bühler's Theory of Language/Karl Bühlers Sprachtheorie: Proceedings of the Conference held at Kirchberg, August 26, 1984 and Essen, November 21–24, 1984, Eschbach, Achim (ed.), pp. 407–414 | Article

Pléh, Csaba 1982 Subject and topic in Hungarian: some psycholinguistic evidence to increase the confusion Hungarian General Linguistics, Kiefer, Ferenc † (ed.), pp. 447–465 | Article