Pragmatica cognitiva. I meccanismi della comunicazione

It is only in recent times that pragmatics has started to use experimental methods in order to test contrasting theories on communicative phenomena. Experimental and cognitive pragmatics aims to explain human communication in a theoretically and empirically plausible framework, focusing not only on foundational issues concerning communication, but also on questions concerning mental processes underlying comprehension, cognitive modules involved in communication and their interaction, and hypotheses about the nature of mental architecture