Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication (MIT Press)
By Bruno G. Bara.
Description
In Cognitive Pragmatics, Bruno Bara offers a theory of human communication that is both formalized through logic and empirically validated through experimental data and clinical studies. Bara argues that communication is a cooperative activity in which two or more agents together consciously and intentionally construct the meaning of their interaction. In true communication (which Bara distinguishes from the mere transmission of information), all the actors must share a set of mental states.Bara takes a cognitive perspective, investigating communication not from the viewpoint of an externa...
ISBN(s)
0262014114, 9780262014113
