Langauge Comprehension 2: Intended meaning and discourse

Question 1

What are pragmatics?

Answer 1

Relates to the intended rather than the literal meaning

Question 2

What is figurative language?

Answer 2

Language that is not meant to be taken literally

Question 3

What is the Standard Pragmatic model (Grice, 1975)?

Answer 3

• The literal meaning is assessed
• The reader or listener decides whether it makes sense to the context
• If it doesn’t, they search for a nonliteral meaning of the sentence that does make sense in the context

Question 4

What is metaphor interference effect?

Answer 4

It takes longer to decide whether the literal meaning of metaphors is false

Question 5

What is the Predication model (Kintsch, 2000)?

Answer 5

It has two components:
Latent semantics analysis component - word meanings based on their relations with other words.
Construction-integration component - information from the above component is used to construct interpretations.