Chapter 1 Introduction
    1.1 Research Background
    1.2 Research Gap
    1.3 Research Objectives and Questions
    1.4 Research Methodology
    1.5 Organization of the Book
Chapter 2 Relevance Theory
    2.1 Principle of Relevance and Relevance-based Comprehension Procedure
    2.2 The Submodule of Theory of Mind
    2.3 Achievements and Further Developments of Relevance Theory
    2.4 Criticisms of Principle of Relevance and Relevance-based Comprehension Procedure
      2.4.1 The Definition of Relevance
      2.4.2 The Principle of Relevance
      2.4.3 Relevance-based Comprehension Procedure
Chapter 3 Alternative Cognitive-pragmatic Accounts of Utterance Interpretation
    3.1 The Associative Accounts
      3.1.1 Recanati’s Dual-process Account
      3.1.2 Mazzone’s Associative Account
    3.2 Mazzarella’s Epistemic Vigilance
    3.3 Critical Analysis
      3.3.1 The Primary Process
      3.3.2 The Secondary Process
      3.3.3 Being Egotistic while Understanding Others
      3.3.4 The Specific Case of Neil
    3.4 The Debate on Theory of Mind in Pragmatic Interpretation
    3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Theoretical Bases
    4.1 Spreading Activation Theory
    4.2 Contention Scheduling/Supervisory System
    4.3 The Cogent Modelling Environment
    4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 A Cognitive Achitecture for Pragmatic Interpretation and Its Implementation
    5.1 Towards a Cognitive Architecture for Pragmatic Interpretation
    5.2 High-level Organization of Cognitive Processes for the Architecture
      5.2.1 The Compound Component Speaker
      5.2.2 Generate Interpretation
      5.2.3 The Role of Working Memory
      5.2.4 The Role of World Knowledge
      5.2.5 Monitoring
    5.3 A Worked Example: Implementation of the Neil Problem
    5.4 Implementation with Different Parameters
      5.4.1 Performance of Monitoring
      5.4.2 Performance of Revise Interpretation
    5.5 Explanatory Power of the Cognitive Architecture
      5.5.1 Relation to Other Inferential Pragmatic Theories
      5.5.2 Monitoring and Epistemic Vigilance Reconsidered
      5.5.3 Cognitive Accounts of (Mis)Understanding Speaker Intention
    5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Comparison with Other Cognitive Models and Computational Approaches
    6.1 ACT-R
    6.2 Comparison with Poznański’s Model
    6.3 Comparison with Jackendoff’s Parallel Architecture of Language Processing
    6.4 Summary
Chapter 7 Theory of Mind in Pragmatic Interpretation
    7.1 Explicature, Implicature and Theory of Mind
      7.1.1 Explicature and Theory of Mind
      7.1.2 Implicature and Theory of Mind
    7.2 Further Considerations of the Autonomous Module
      7.2.1 The Difference Between Communicative and Non-Communicative Behavior
      7.2.2 Massive Modularity
      7.2.3 Modified False Belief Tests
      7.2.4 Deficits in General Inference
    7.3 Supervisory Processes and Theory of Mind
      7.3.1 The Nature of Monitoring and Revise Interpretation
      7.3.2 The Correlation Between Theory of Mind and Supervisory Processes
    7.4 Two Systems at Work: Associative and Supervisory Processes
    7.5 Summary
Chapter 8 Conclusion
    8.1 Major Findings
    8.2 Contributions and Limitations
    8.3 Implications for Further Research
References
Appendices
Appendix A Key Processes
    A.1 Maintain Situational Model
    A.2 Monitoring
    A.3 Revise Interpretation
Appendix B Compound Components of the Architecture
    B.1 Generate Interpretation
    B.2 Speaker
    B.3 Incremental Parser
Appendix C A Detailed Example
    C.1 Stimuli
    C.2 Present Stimuli
    C.3 Incremental Parser
      C.3.1 Verbal Input
      C.3.2 Lexicon
      C.3.3 Propose Operators
      C.3.4 Grammar Rules
      C.3.5 Activate Lexical Expectations
      C.3.6 Operators
      C.3.7 Apply Operator
      C.3.8 Choice Points
      C.3.9 Chart
    C.4 Maintain Situational Model
    C.5 Maintain Metadata
    C.6 World Knowledge
    C.7 Working Memory
    C.8 Monitoring
    C.9 Revise Interpretation
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