Experimental Pragmatics. The Making of a Cognitive Science, Paperback

How do listeners understand what they are told? How do they make sense of ambiguities, understand irony, and - more generally - capture a speaker's intended meaning? Using interactions between philosophy, experimental psychology, linguistics and neuroscience to craft innovative experiments, this book explains the phenomena of human communication.

Illustrations: 6 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and white