Posts tagged with "Pragmatics"

Alcohol and Pragmatic Inference – Avett Brothers’ “When I Drink”

Avett Brothers - "When I Drink"

Headlines, pragmatics and computation

My knowledge of linguistic pragmatics is fairly limited, but I know enough people who I thought might be interested to post the link. The link is to a post on the Language Log blog about how headline length affects the efficacy of the automatic classification of texts. It seems like an interesting study that would be related to what a maxim of quantity might mean in the context of computation.