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- Title
Probabilistic pragmatics, or why Bayes' rule is probably important for pragmatics.
- Authors
Franke, Michael; Jäger, Gerhard
- Abstract
Probabilistic pragmatics aspires to explain certain regularities of language use and interpretation as behavior of speakers and listeners who want to satisfy their conversational interests in a context that may contain a substantial amount of uncertainty. This approach differs substantially from more familiar approaches in theoretical pragmatics. To set it apart, we here work out some of its key distinguishing features and show, by way of some simple examples, how probabilistic pragmatics instantiates these.
- Subjects
PROBABILISTIC inference; PRAGMATICS; BAYESIAN analysis; PHILOSOPHY of language; SEMANTICS research
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2016, Vol 35, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0721-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zfs-2016-0002