More than Words: A Reply to Malt and Sloman

Autor/in	Bloom, Paul
Titel	More than Words: A Reply to Malt and Sloman
Quelle	In: Cognition, 105 (2007) 3, S.649-655 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.016
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Pragmatics; Intention; Classification; Cognitive Processes; Context Effect; Communication (Thought Transfer); Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pragmalinguistik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	In four experiments, Malt and Sloman [Malt, B. C., & Sloman, S. A. (2007). Category essence or essentially pragmatic? Creator's intention in naming and what's really what. "Cognition, 105," 615-648] show that the naming of artifacts is affected by discourse context. They see this phenomenon as posing a problem for the intentional-history theory of artifact categorization (e.g., [Bloom, P. (1996). Intention, history, and artifact concepts. "Cognition, 60," 1-29]), and as supporting instead their alternative theory that naming is determined by communicative goals. This response begins by distinguishing the problem of artifact categorization (determining the categories that artifacts belong to) from the problem of artifact naming (deciding how to talk about members of these categories). In light of this distinction, it turns out that Malt and Sloman's findings are fully consistent with all theories of artifact categorization, including the intentional-historical one. Moreover, contrary to what they argue, there are actually many cases where the relative contributions of categorization and pragmatics can be clearly distinguished. Finally, it is argued that Malt and Sloman's own account of artifact naming presupposes a capacity for artifact categorization; it cannot work without one. (Author).
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