The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

Probabilistic pragmatics aspires to explain certain regularities of language use and
interpretation as behavior of speakers and listeners who want to satisfy their conversational …

We derive a probabilistic account of the vagueness and context-sensitivity of scalar
adjectives from a Bayesian approach to communication and interpretation. We describe an …

Is a human more conscious than an octopus? In the science of consciousness, it's oftentimes
assumed that some creatures (or mental states) are more conscious than others. But in …

Abstract Language provides simple ways of communicating generalizable knowledge to
each other (eg,“Birds fly,”“John hikes,” and “Fire makes smoke”). Though found in every …

The relationship between communicated language and intended meaning is often
probabilistic and sensitive to context. Numerous strategies attempt to estimate such a …

We present an overview and comparison of different game-theoretic approaches to Gricean
pragmatics, including games of partial information, optimal answer models, error models …

Pragmatic theories of utterance interpretation share the assumption that listeners reason
about alternative utterances that a speaker could have produced, but didn't. For such …

Subjective predicates have two interpretive and distributional characteristics that have
resisted a comprehensive analysis. First, the use of a subjective predicate to describe an …

Clause-embedding predicates come in three major varieties:(i) responsive predicates (eg
know) are compatible with both declarative and interrogative complements;(ii) rogative …