Albert N. Katz

List of John Benjamins publications for which Albert N. Katz plays a role.

Book series

Title

Ecological Validity in Pragmatic Research

Aaron V. Cicourel and Albert N. Katz

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:2 (1996) viii, 216 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics
In this chapter I argue for the utility of studying nonliteral language production in the laboratory. Three aspects of nonliteral language production were provided as examples: first, inducing non-literal language in interactive communication (and identifying features of the produced language);… read more
The traditional way in which irony has been studied in the laboratory takes a critical item, such as the sentence “You are a true friend” and embeds it in a verbal context that either supports a sincere reading or a counterfactual ironic one. One can question the ecological validity of this… read more
The confusion between sentential figurativeness and conventionality found in many of the experiments on figurative language comprehension is here disentangled by factorially crossing the figurativeness of a proverb (determined by discourse context) with conventionality (determined by familiarity… read more
Katz, Albert N. 1996 Pragmatics and the processing of metaphors: Category dissimilarity in topic and vehicle asymmetryEcological Validity in Pragmatic Research, Cicourel, Aaron V. and Albert N. Katz, pp. 265–304 | Article
A model of metaphor processing is suggested based on the application of pragmatic principles to the type of semantic information easy to access. It is argued that, with metaphor, higher-order categorical knowledge is given processing preference over instance-specific knowledge in an attempt to… read more