Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0063892

Zusammenfassung

Language processing is typically investigated in the lab under highly controlled circumstances which evidently leads to the question whether the findings mirror language processing in the 'real world'. While the examination of sentence processing has advanced in recent decades, the study of larger communicative exchanges has been considerably neglected. With the advent of Experimental Pragmatics a first step has been made to shift attention to speaker intentions in communication. This interdisciplinary enterprise is aimed to improve theories of language use and to formulate cognitively...