CAOT 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Latent Semantic Analysis, Pragmatics, Mental Model
28 Oct 2020
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The ability to correctly process word and phrase meanings, sentence grammar and discourse or text structure. Memory capacity in older people can cause comprehension difficulty. Pragmatics: concerned with practical language use and comprehension. It refers to the intended meaning, rather than the literal meaning as expressed by speakers. Taking account of contextual information (tone, behavior, environment ) Figur at i ve l angu age : language not intended to be taken literally (requires more cognitive resources). Metaphors: our processing includes individual differences in: language ability, familiarity of the metaphor, the listeners goals (judging, understanding ) Standard pragmatic model: three stages are involved in processing metaphorical or figurative statements: literal meaning is assessed, the listener decides whether the literal meaning makes sense. If the meaning is inadequate, there is a search for a suitable non-literal meaning. Inadequate, as it predicts that figurative meaning should be assessed more slowly than literal meaning, which is not the case (automatic process)
