not draw an epistemological or metaphysical boundary between different kinds of objects and events, but a pragmatic boundary between different ways in which we interact with objects and events. Put differently, I argue that the manifest-scientific distinction, in my view, can be best understood, not as a

Traditional social science research within the topic of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has relied to a great extent on cognitive psychology. The narrow focus of HCI on the individual and the human-computer interface has been criticized by several researchers. Situated Action is a class of theoretical approaches, mainly emerging from social anthropology and sociology, which have in common a general theoretical claim that cognition is situated and cannot be studied and meaningfully discussed without taking context and environment into account. The focus in Situated Action lies on manifest action rather than internal information processing. This paper examines three quite distinct perspectives on situated action which have more or less radical theoretical foundations and research agendas. Two of the perspectives, Person-Plus and Connectionism, mainly follow the theoretical perspective of traditional cognitive psychology and further investigate the inexplicable link between physical and social contexts on the one hand and mechanistic cognitive processes on the other. The aim is to understand how people's cognitive mechanisms are influenced or shaped by social and artifactual contexts. The Person-Plus perspective has a wide research agenda ranging from abstract information flow notations of how people use and distribute cognitive

of the object ” (Peirce, 1992: 132). William James’s book, Pragmatism (1907), gathered together lectures he had been giving on the subject since 1898 and launched a much broader interest in pragmatism and also controversy concerning what the philosophy means. Most early critics took James as the representative

Introduction Pragmatics is commo,nly understood to be concerned with studying the relations between linguistic phenomena and properties of the context of use. The understanding of these relations is important in many areas of theoretical and applied research, from grammatical analysis

Abstract. This paper is concerned with the conceptual foundations of pragmatic reasoning (context-dependent reasoning). A general pragmatic semantics (a semantic analysis which includes a pragmatic parameter) is given for pragmatic reasoning, the logical properties of the various forms of pragmatic

encouraged efforts to replace that paradigm. The final section of the paper advocates a “pragmatic approach ” as a new guiding paradigm in social science research methods, both as a basis for supporting work that combines qualitative and quantitative meth-ods and as a way to redirect our attention

Abstract: Overall comprehension is closely related not only to the knowledge of words and syntax, but also the pragmatic concerns of the discourse. This study is an attempt to explore the basic constructs of aural pragmatic comprehension in second language (L2) learning. Taking pragmatic

a b s t r a c t This paper proposes a new way for sociology, through both methodology and theory, to understand the reality of social groups and their “minority practices. ” It is based on an experiment that concerns a very

, ch. XI; Böhler et al. 1986; Schurz 1988). I will sharply distinguish this broader sense of pragmatically influenced philosophy- which I call pragmatic philosophy- from pragmatism in the narrower sense of the word. 1. Kinds of Pragmatisms Pragmatism is a family of philosophical positions which concern

of pragmatics. Computational pragmatics might be defined as the computational study of the relation between utterances and context. Like other kinds of pragmatics, this means that computational pragmatics is concerned with indexicality, with the relation between utterances and action, with the relation between