Experimental Pragmatics: Advancing Theory and Method Special Session at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

实验语用学：第 27 届纽约市立大学人类句子处理年会推进理论与方法特别会议

• 批准号: 1360663
• 负责人: Shari Speer
• 金额: $ 3.46万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-02-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1360663&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Experimental; Pragmatics; Advancing; Theory; Method

Understanding how humans employ pragmatic principles to facilitate communication is an important element in understanding human interaction. Research in experimental pragmatics has shown marked recent theoretical progress. Current work successfully models not only contextual influences from linguistic structure and visually available context, but also factors such as the interlocutors involved, the world knowledge available to them as individuals and as they interact, and their mutually sustained beliefs and intentions. Recent progress in the field can be linked to researchers' ability to leverage novel methods, such as mining multi-interlocutor text interactions in social media, web-crawling language produced and understood via electronic means such as texting, internet blogs and other web-based platforms, and collecting data via Mechanical Turk. These approaches have expanded the available testable hypotheses as well as the diversity and representativeness of the language data under study. Pragmatics theorists have also been particularly open to incorporating insights from experimentally-generated results into developing theories of language interpretation. The 27th Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, to be held in March 2014 at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, will include a Special Session on Experimental Pragmatics that aims to take stock of recent progress in this burgeoning sub-field and help to set the agenda for future research in this domain.The core of the special session is a series of invited talks by six prominent researchers, diverse with respect to gender and academic seniority, with relevant expertise. Together, the speakers represent a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches (corpus linguistics as well as experimental studies; language acquisition as well as adult processing; speech perception as well as the processing of quantifiers and anaphora). The special session promises to provide a fuller understanding of the operation of pragmatic influences and their interaction with other aspects of linguistic competence and performance that we believe will lead to a more realistic and representative picture of how the human mind represents and processes language.

理解人类如何运用语用原则来促进交际是理解人类互动的一个重要因素。 实验语用学的研究近年来取得了显著的理论进展。目前的工作不仅成功地模拟了语言结构和视觉上可用的语境的影响，而且还包括诸如所涉及的对话者，他们作为个人和他们互动时所能获得的世界知识，以及他们相互持续的信念和意图等因素。该领域的最新进展可能与研究人员利用新方法的能力有关，例如挖掘社交媒体中的多对话者文本交互，通过短信，互联网博客和其他基于网络的平台等电子手段产生和理解的网络爬行语言，这些方法扩大了现有的可检验的假设，也增加了正在研究的语言数据。语用学理论家也特别愿意将实验结果的见解纳入语言解释的发展理论中。第27届纽约市立大学人类句子处理年会将于2014年3月在俄亥俄州哥伦布市的俄亥俄州大学举行，会议将包括一个关于实验语用学的特别会议，旨在评估这一新兴子领域的最新进展，并帮助为该领域的未来研究制定议程。特别会议的核心是六位著名研究人员的一系列特邀演讲，在性别和学历方面多样化，具有相关的专门知识。总之，演讲者代表了广泛的理论和方法论方法（语料库语言学以及实验研究;语言习得以及成人处理;言语感知以及量词和回指的处理）。特别会议有望使人们更充分地了解语用影响的作用及其与语言能力和表现的其他方面的相互作用，我们认为这将使人们对人脑如何表现和处理语言有更现实和更有代表性的了解。