Albert N. Katz
List of John Benjamins publications in which Albert N. Katz is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2405-6944
Title
Ecological Validity in Pragmatic Research
Aaron V. Cicourel and Albert N. Katz
Addresses the problem of ensuring a higher degree of ‘ecological validity’ in pragmatic research.No postage, no electronic access included. For subscription information (including electronic access) please refer to our Journals section.
read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:2 (1996) viii, 216 pp.
2020 Producing metaphor (and other forms of non-literal language) in the laboratory: Structural and pragmatic effects as seen from the perspective of an experimental psycholinguist Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John and Andrew Gargett (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Chapter
In this chapter I argue for the utility of studying nonliteral language production in the laboratory. Three aspects of nonliteral language production were provided as examples: first, inducing non-literal language in interactive communication (and identifying features of the produced language);… read more
2017 Chapter 11. The standard experimental approach to the study of irony: Let us not be hasty in throwing out the baby with the bathwater Irony in Language Use and Communication, Athanasiadou, Angeliki and Herbert L. Colston (eds.), pp. 237–254 | Chapter
The traditional way in which irony has been studied in the laboratory takes a critical item, such as the sentence “You are a true friend” and embeds it in a verbal context that either supports a sincere reading or a counterfactual ironic one. One can question the ecological validity of this… read more
1997 The availability of conventional and of literal meaning during the comprehension of proverbs Pragmatics & Cognition 5:2, pp. 199–233 | Article
The confusion between sentential figurativeness and conventionality found in many of the experiments on figurative language comprehension is here disentangled by factorially crossing the figurativeness of a proverb (determined by discourse context) with conventionality (determined by familiarity… read more
1996 Pragmatics and the processing of metaphors: Category dissimilarity in topic and vehicle asymmetry Ecological Validity in Pragmatic Research, Cicourel, Aaron V. and Albert N. Katz, pp. 265–304 | Article
A model of metaphor processing is suggested based on the application of pragmatic principles to the type of semantic information easy to access. It is argued that, with metaphor, higher-order categorical knowledge is given processing preference over instance-specific knowledge in an attempt to… read more