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Book/Printed Material Context in communication : a cognitive view

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Title

  • Context in communication : a cognitive view

Summary

  • Context is what contributes to interpret a communicative act beyond the spoken words. It provides information essential to clarify the intentions of a speaker, and thus to identify the actual meaning of an utterance. A large amount of research in Pragmatics has shown how wide-ranging and multifaceted this concept can be. Context spans from the preceding words in a conversation to the general knowledge that the interlocutors supposedly share, from the perceived environment to features and traits that the participants in a dialogue attribute to each other. This last category is also very broad, since it includes mental and emotional states, together with culturally constructed knowledge, such as the reciprocal identification of social roles and positions. The assumption of a cognitive point of view brings to the foreground a number of new questions regarding how information about the context is organized in the mind and how this kind of knowledge is used in specific communicative situations. A related, very important question concerns the role played in this process by theory of mind abilities (ToM), both in typical and atypical populations. In this Research Topic, we bring together articles that address different aspects of context analysis from theoretical and empirical perspectives, integrating knowledge and methods derived from Philosophy of language, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Clinical Psychology.

Names

  • Airenti, Gabriella, editor.
  • Cruciani, Marco, editor.
  • Plebe, Alessio, editor.

Created / Published

  • Lausanne, Switzerland : Frontiers Media SA, [2017]

Contents

  • Editorial: Context in Communication: A Cognitive View / Gabriella Airenti and Alessio Plebe -- Specialized Knowledge Representation and the Parameterization of Context / Pamela Faber and Pilar Le on-Ara uz -- Contexts as Shared Commitments / Manuel Garc ia-Carpintero -- Disagreeing in context / Teresa Marques -- Expressivism, Relativism, and the Analytic Equivalence Test / Maria J. Fr apolli and Neftal i Villanueva -- Constructing the context through goals and schemata: top-down processes in comprehension and beyond / Marco Mazzone -- Context as Relevance-Driven Abduction and Charitable Satisficing / Salvatore Attardo -- Pragmatics as Metacognitive Control / Mikhail Kissine -- Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: the case from clinical pragmatics / Louise Cummings -- Playing with Expectations: A Contextual View of Humor Development / Gabriella Airenti -- Communicating numeric quantities in context: implications for decision science and rationality claims / David R. Mandel -- Pitch enhancement facilitates word learning across visual contexts / Piera Filippi, Bruno Gingras and W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Evoking Context with Contrastive Stress: Effects on Pragmatic Enrichment / Chris Cummins and Hannah Rohde -- Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment / Filippo Domaneschi, Elena Carrea, Carlo Penco and Alberto Greco -- But Implicatures: A Study of the Effect of Working Memory and Argument Characteristics / Leen Janssens and Walter Schaeken -- Context in Generalized Conversational Implicatures: The Case of Some / Ludivine E. Dupuy, Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst, Anne Cheylus and Anne C. Rebou -- Disentangling Metaphor from Context: An ERP Study / Valentina Bambini, Chiara Bertini, Walter Schaeken, Alessandra Stella and Francesco Di Russo -- Who is respectful? Effects of social context and individual empathic ability on ambiguity resolution during utterance comprehension / Xiaoming Jiang and Xiaolin Zhou -- A Test for the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS): Normative Data and Psychometric Properties / Giorgio Arcara and Valentina Bambini -- Tapping into neural resources of communication: formulaic language in aphasia therapy / Benjamin Stahl and Diana Van Lancker Sidtis -- Bridging the gap between DeafBlind minds: interactional and social foundations of intention attribution in the Seattle DeafBlind community / Terra Edwards.

Headings

  • -  Context (Linguistics)
  • -  Interpersonal communication
  • -  Pragmatics

Notes

  • -  "Published in: Frontiers in psychology."
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Frontiers In, viewed July 1, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (242 pages) : color illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • P94.7

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020394825

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Airenti, Gabriella, Marco Cruciani, and Alessio Plebe, editor. Context in Communication: A Cognitive View. [Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA, 2017] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020394825/.

APA citation style:

Airenti, G., Cruciani, M. & Plebe, A., editor. (2017) Context in Communication: A Cognitive View. [Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020394825/.

MLA citation style:

Airenti, Gabriella, Marco Cruciani, and Alessio Plebe, editor. Context in Communication: A Cognitive View. [Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA, 2017] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020394825/>.