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XPrag.de的总体目标是开发一个精确的语用学理论，该理论是通过使用实验方法的证据来告知的。该计划针对语言学，心理学，神经科学，哲学和相关领域的研究人员，他们寻求通过同时制定语用学基础认知机制的正式明确模型并使用实验方法测试这些模型来推进语用学理论。自2004年以来，实验语用学这一新领域逐渐出现，主要是通过德国和欧洲其他地区的努力。实验语用学代表了语用学的一种新的研究方法，它是语言学理论中最具挑战性的领域之一，在这一领域取得的进展一直很困难。语用学发展缓慢的原因有三：缺乏形式上明确的模型和相应的精确假设;缺乏语用理论与认知机制的联系;

The overall goal of XPrag.de is to develop a precise pragmatic theory that is informed by evidence using experimental methods. The programme is addressed at researchers in linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and related fields who seek to advance pragmatic theory by simultaneously formulating formally explicit models of the cognitive mechanisms underlying pragmatics and testing these models using experimental methods. The new field of Experimental Pragmatics has emerged gradually since 2004, primarily through efforts in Germany and other parts of Europe. Experimental Pragmatics represents a new approach to pragmatics, which is one of the most challenging areas of linguistic theory, where progress has been difficult. Three reasons why progress in pragmatics has been slow are the absence of formally explicit models and correspondingly precise hypotheses, the lack of relations from pragmatic theory to cognitive mechanisms, and the sole reliance on natural observation, which is a coarse-grained method, to test hypotheses.