Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Emergence, Cooperative Principle, Psycholinguistics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Olessia Jouravlev

Document Summary

The study of aspect of meaning and language use that is dependent on the speaker, the addressee and other features of the context of utterance. Variants with same truth conditions: the sentences differ in appropriateness. These sentences are appropriate in different circumstances. Part of the appropriateness or felicity involves which aspect of the situation the speaker chooses to focus upon: pragmatics & syntactic structure: The study of pragmatics specifies the conditions under which these variants can be used felicitiously. How to do things with words: language is not always about statements of fact that could be true or false, language is a form of action, we perform acts with words. We use human language to accomplish speech acts. Physical acts: getting a glass of water. Mental ac: thinking about getting a glass of water. Speech act: "get a glass of water . Propositional utterances: the intention to affect behaviour, direct meaning.