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- Title
Pragmatics and Processing.
- Authors
Geurts, Bart; Rubio‐Fernández, Paula
- Abstract
Gricean pragmatics has often been criticised for being implausible from a psychological point of view. This line of criticism is never backed up by empirical evidence, but more importantly, it ignores the fact that Grice never meant to advance a processing theory, in the first place. Taking our lead from Marr (1982), we distinguish between two levels of explanation: at the W-level, we are concerned with what agents do and why; at the H-level, we ask how agents do whatever it is they do. Whereas pragmatics is pitched at the W-level, processing theories are at the H-level. This is not to say that pragmatics has no implications for psychology at all, but it is to say that its implications are less direct than is often supposed.
- Subjects
PRAGMATICS; CRITICISM; EMPIRICAL research; SEMANTICS -- Psychological aspects
- Publication
Ratio, 2015, Vol 28, Issue 4, p446
- ISSN
0034-0006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rati.12113