Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first address the adequacy of the 2 dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing…

Takes an in-depth look at the probabilistic nature of human communication, i.e, the misinterpretation of the language-producer message by the language comprehender. Reviews the psycho-linguistic, linguistic and philosophical literature dealing with this aspect of language and demonstrates that this misinterpretation is related to a basic process…

Some psychological issues of implication and inference were discussed and dealt with from a theoretical standpoint in an attempt to put clearly into perspective the authors' conceptions of the direction that further research in this area can take to (a) contribute to the understanding of inference and implication in relation to the total message…