Evaluating cognitive explanations of communicative phenomena
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 70 (3), 241-254
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638409383694
Abstract
The rise of cognitive approaches to the study of human communication demands an analysis of standards for evaluating such accounts. Three sets of standards are detailed in this essay: necessary requirements, aspects of an explanation needed to advance falsifiable predictions concerning cognitive structures and processes; sufficiency requirements, principles for assessing an explanation with respect to its relationship to relevant data; and aesthetic requirements, matters of quality which concern the intuitive power and appeal of explanations.Keywords
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