Cognition and Communication: Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation

ISBN-13: 9780805823141 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 124 str.

Norbert Schwarz;Schwarz

Opis

This text introduces the logic of conversation developed by Paul Grice, who proposed the cooperative principle and a set of maxims on which conversationalists rely. This framework is applied to topics including: research on person perception; decision making; and public opinion research.

Recenzje

"...does a good job of summarizing complex research and theory related to language and cognition."
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Spis treści

Contents: Cognition, Communication, and the Fallacies of Human Judgment. Cognition and Communication: The Logic of Conversation. The Conversational Relevance of "Irrelevant" Information. Questions, Innuendos, and Assertions of the Obvious. The Conversational Relevance of Formal Features of Questionnaires. Making One's Contribution Informative: The Changing Meaning of Repeated Questions. Judgment in a Social Context: (Some) Conclusions.

O autorze

Norbert Schwarz