Sentence examples for pragmatic interpretations from inspiring English sources

For each story we designed different versions eliciting, respectively, different pragmatic interpretations of the same target sentence – literal, deceitful or ironic–.

Lesion studies show that dynamic access to lexical meaning, and the ability to construct semantic and pragmatic interpretations of incoming speech, can remain largely intact even after extensive damage to left frontal and posterior temporal regions [Caramazza and Zurif, 1976; Caplan et al., 1996; Miceli et al., 1983; Marslen-Wilson and Tyler, 1997; Tyler et al., 2011; Wright et al., 2012].

In the tradition of Deweyan pragmatism, Hook sought to apply the pragmatic interpretation of ethics to diverse areas of social action including issues of educational policy, cultural freedom and societal change.

That is a pragmatic argument for limiting the pragmatic interpretation of our Constitution.

Although his thinking has its origins in Total Football, his is a more pragmatic interpretation of it.

Our individual rights must be balanced against the rights of others, which requires a pragmatic interpretation of political philosophies, and some softening of extremist outlooks.

But we like the rules to be based on logic, or at least some sort of pragmatic interpretation of concrete outcomes based on real-world experiments (known in the non-geek world as common sense).

John Dewey, in Human Nature and Conduct (1922) and Theory of Valuation (1939), presented a pragmatic interpretation and tried to break down this distinction between means and ends, though the latter effort was more likely a way of emphasizing the point that many actual things in human life such as health, knowledge, and virtue are good in both senses.

For both types of implicatures, the hearer's (pragmatic) interpretation of an expression involves what he takes to be the speaker's reason for using this expression.

Moreover, it can be shown that, as far as ignorance implicatures are concerned, the predictions of Bi-OT line up with the pragmatic interpretation function called 'Grice' in various (joint) papers of Schulz and Van Rooij (e.g. Schulz & Van Rooij, 2006).

A pragmatic interpretation of social facts in this way encourages us to see globalization as Janus-faced, as an obstacle and as a resource for the realization of democratic ideals.