TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazzone,Marco
TI  - Cognitive Pragmatics: Mindreading, Inferences, Consciousness 
T2  - Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ,
SN  - 9781501516122
AV  - P99.4.P72 M4428 2018
U1  - 306.44 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Cognitive grammar
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Gricean implicature
KW  - Inference
KW  - Mindreading
KW  - Relevance Theory
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Introduction --; 1 Relevance --; 2 Associative and inferential processes --; 3 Automatic and controlled processes --; 4 Mindreading, pragmatics, and modularity --; 5 Rational and cognitive: an opposition? --; Conclusions --; References --; Name index --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevance Theory has provided a rich framework for research in the field. However, this theory makes a number of assumptions that are rooted in a modular view of cognition. This book provides a detailed analysis of such assumptions, arguing for an alternative model which has, however, some support in ideas explored by relevance theorists. First of all, inferences are explained in terms of associative pattern completion within associative networks, based on the schematic organization of memory. This explanation is shown to apply to a number of cognitive domains besides pragmatics, including mindreading. Moreover, such a view is compatible with a general understanding of the neurocomputational machinery of our cortex, suggesting a general argument to the effect that modularity in its standard version cannot be right. Second, the book argues for a crucial role of conscious attention in pragmatics as well as in most cognitive processes. In the end, what is proposed is not only a revision of Relevance Theory but also a fresh analysis of reasoning, which vindicates some Gricean intuitions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507731
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501507731
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501507731/original
ER  -