Pragmatics & Cognition

Summary: Pragmatics & Cognition focuses on exchange of views across wide range of disciplines.

Pragmatics & Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to bring together such disciplines as philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, ethology, and cognitive anthropology, among others. The journal seeks to explore relations of all sorts between semiotic systems as used by humans, animals and machines, in connection with mental activities: logical and causal dependence; condition of acquisition, development of loss; modeling, simulation of formalization, shared or separate biological and neurological bases; social and cultural variation; aesthetic expression; historical development; etc. Pragmatics & Cognition’s basic assumption is that the proper understanding of mental life and inter-personal relations requires an intensive and thoughtful exchange of views across disciplines.

Since Vol. 13 (2005) Pragmatics & Cognition pays special attention to the growing interest in the relationship between technological advances and cognition a field that is intimately related to the journals basic concerns. The journal appears now three times a year in order to make room for this field. Four Special Issues devoted to selected issues in Cognition & Technology were published so far by Pragmatics & Cognition and others will be published henceforth. Since contributions in this area will be published also in regular issues, authors are invited to submit relevant articles as well as proposals for book reviews and discussion notes independently of the announcement of Special Issues.

Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
More information	http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_seriesview....
Keywords	linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, ethology, cognitive anthropology, semiotic systems