Habibova, Manzila
Pragmatics & Cognition publishes articles which forge links between communication and related human abilities and behaviours, from the perspective of cognitive science. The journal's leading principle is that the proper understanding of communication, mental activity and interpersonal relations requires an intensive and thoughtful exchange of views across a range of disciplines and perspectives. This interdisciplinary approach generates an understanding of the mental processes involved in the production and understanding of communicative acts of various forms and across contexts. Linguistics, in particular pragmatics and semantics, neuroscience, cognitive anthropology, philosophy of language, computational linguistics, experimental psychology, are the main areas of language study brought together by the journal. Pragmatics & Cognition focuses on meaning, acquisition and development of communicative abilities, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variation, epistemic vigilance, evolution of language and communication. Alongside full-scale articles and book reviews, the journal publishes high quality thematic special issues in innovative areas of international scholarship which establish a niche in contemporary research. Both experimental and theoretical contributions are welcome. Reviews Pragmatics & Cognition offers a venue for reviews of recent contributions in the field of pragmatics and related disciplines in cognitive science. Reviews should offer a critical discussion of a book and target an interdisciplinary audience of linguists, philosophers and psychologists. We publish reviews in the following two formats. 1. Book symposia Book symposia comprise two or three critical notices on a book together with the author's replies. Selected books for symposia typically address foundational questions in pragmatics and cognitive science, with the potential to foster interdisciplinary discussions. Contributions to book symposia are by invitation only and should not exceed 3000 words. 2. Book reviews Book reviews offer a short and critical presentation of the content of a book and assess its contribution to the field. Book reviews should not exceed 2000 words. They are usually commissioned. Unsolicited reviews will not be considered. However, it is possible to submit proposals for book reviews to the Review Editor, Prof. Diana Mazzarella (diana.mazzarella@unine.ch), who will evaluate them on a case-by-case basis.