Preface
Chapter 1 What Is Experimental Pragmatics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Present Focused Issues in~Pragmatics
1.3 Methodology of Experimental Pragmatics
1.4 Chief Research in Experimental Pragmatics
1.5 Conclusion
Chapter 2 Conve ational Implicature, Explicature and Impliciture
2.1 Introduction
2.2 General Conve ational Implicature (GCI)
2.3 Explicature Theory
2.4 Main Divergences between the Explicature and GCI
2.5 Impliciture Theory
2.6 Discussion
Chapter 3 Research I: Processing of Classification and Rec- ognition of Chinese Speech Acts
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Experimental Problems
3.3 Pilot Experiments
3.4 Experiments
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Research II: Testing Metaphor Processing Model for Chinese Proverbs
4.1 Background
4.2 Rlated Research
4.3 Present Study
4.4 Results and Analyses
4.5 Discussio and Conclusion
Chapter 5 Three Approaches to Speech Acts
5.1 The Convention-Rule and Norm Based Tradition
5.2 The Intention-Inference Tradition
Chapter 6 Speaking Nonliterally and Indirectly
6.1 Nonliteral Speech Acts: Background and Current Issues
6.2 Indirect Speech Acts: Background and Current Issues
Chapter 7 Experimental Pragmatics: Indirect and Nonliteral Speech Acts
7.1 The Experimental Pragmatics of Indirect Speech Acts
7.2 The Experimental Pragmatics of Nonliteral Speech Acts
Chapter 8 Conve ational Implicature and Conve ational Impliciture
8.1 Origi of Conve ational Implicature
8.2 Challenges to Grice and Conve ational Impliciture
8.3 Unde tood.Elements of Content
Chapter 9 Cognitive Science Research
9.1 Mind Design: the Computer Analogy
9.2 A Major Theoretical Principle: Modularity of Mind
9.3 A Second Major Issue: the Role of Co ciousness in Mental Processing
Chapter 10 Processing Resources and Limitatio
10.1 Language as a Complex of Mental Processes
10.2 Segmentation Problems
10.3 Word Retrieval and Syntax
10.4 Ambiguity Studies
Chapter 11 Core Problems in Comprehe ion Studies
11.1 Sentence Level Processes
11.2 Using the Neuroscience Side to Explore the Multi-systems Idea
11.3 Some Experimental Pragmatics
Chapter 12 Research III: The Experimental Pragmaties of Implicature and impliciture
12.1 Experimental Pragmatics of Impliciture: Categorizing What is Said vs.What is Implicated
12.2 Experimental Pragmatics of Impliciture: Processing Models for What is Said vs.What is Implicated
12.3 Experimental Pragmatics of Impliciture: A Test Case with impliciture