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The field of psychology has always had a curious relationship with the study of linguistic-pragmatics. Linguists, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists have over the past 40 years offered important analytic insights into the ways people employ pragmatic knowledge in using and understanding language. Some psychologists, most notably psycholinguists and social psychologists, have exploited the findings from scholars working in linguistic-pragmatics to conduct psychological experiments. Social psychologists, for instance, examine the ways language helps structure social interactions. Cognitive psychologists, on the other hand, focus on the underlying mental processes involved when people acquire, produce and comprehend language in real-life social settings. In both cases, ideas from linguistic-pragmatics are critical sources of hypotheses for various experimental investigations.
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Gibbs, R.W. (2004). Psycholinguistic Experiments and Linguistic-Pragmatics. In: Noveck, I.A., Sperber, D. (eds) Experimental Pragmatics. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524125_3
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