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

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Norbert Schwarz

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Norbert Schwarz, Schwarz Norbert
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1996
• EAN: 9780805823141
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2314-1
• No. of pages: 124
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Distinguished Lecture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Sociolinguistics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social research & statistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Information theory, Social research and statistics