The works hop examines reasoning, argumentation and logic fr om the perspective of experimental pragmatics. Whe reas these issues have a long tradition in the phi losophy of language and theoretical linguistics, r esearch in experimental pragmatics has come to foc us on them only recently. This is surprising since pragmatic phenomena exert strong influence on whi ch arguments count as sound and valid in everyday reasoning. Relevant phenomena include (a) the disa mbiguation of polysemous words, (b) context effect s on the interpretation of content words and (c) p ragmatic properties of logical connectives (e.g., order effects associated with and) as wel l as of quantifiers (e.g., the scalar implicature from some to not all). The works hop focuses on (i) experimental approaches and (ii ) empirically driven models regarding these as wel l as other pragmatic phenomena in the domain of ar gumentation and reasoning.
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