The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

Discerning the meaning of an utterance requires not only mastering grammar and knowing
the meanings of words but also understanding the communicative (ie pragmatic) features of …

Influential dual process models of human thinking posit that reasoners typically produce a
fast, intuitive heuristic (ie, Type-1) response which might subsequently be overridden and …

Influential work on reasoning and decision-making has popularised the idea that sound
reasoning requires correction of fast, intuitive thought processes by slower and more …

Building on the old adage that the deliberate mind corrects the emotional heart, the
influential dual process model of moral cognition has posited that utilitarian responding to …

Misinformation often continues to influence inferential reasoning after clear and credible
corrections are provided; this effect is known as the continued influence effect. It has been …

In recent years, quantity implicatures-a type of pragmatic inference-have been widely
debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous …

Recent investigations of the acquisition of scalar implicature report that young children do
not reliably reject a sentence with a weak scalar term, eg 'some of the books are red', when it …

Scalar implicature has served as a test case for exploring the relations between semantic
and pragmatic processes during language comprehension. Most studies have used reaction …

Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of
figurative language that addresses the question," Why don't people just say what they …