- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Causal Reasoning: An Introduction
- Associative Accounts of Causal Cognition
- Rules of Causal Judgment: Mapping Statistical Information onto Causal Beliefs
- The Inferential Reasoning Theory of Causal Learning: Toward a Multi-Process Propositional Account
- Causal Invariance as an Essential Constraint for Creating a Causal Representation of the World: Generalizing the Invariance of Causal Power
- The Acquisition and Use of Causal Structure Knowledge
- Formalizing Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction
- Causal Mechanisms
- Force Dynamics
- Mental Models and Causation
- Pseudocontingencies
- Singular Causation
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Causal Reasoning
- Visual Impressions of Causality
- Goal-Directed Actions
- Planning and Control
- Reinforcement Learning and Causal Models
- Causation and the Probability of Causal Conditionals
- Causal Models and Conditional Reasoning
- Concepts as Causal Models: Categorization
- Concepts as Causal Models: Induction
- Causal Explanation
- Diagnostic Reasoning
- Inferring Causal Relations by Analogy
- Causal Argument
- Causality in Decision-Making
- Intuitive Theories
- Space, Time, and Causality
- Causation in Legal and Moral Reasoning
- The Role of Causal Knowledge in Reasoning About Mental Disorders
- Causality and Causal Reasoning in Natural Language
- Social Attribution and Explanation
- The Development of Causal Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning in Non-Human Animals
- Causal Cognition and Culture
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter provides a combined overview of theoretical and psycholinguistic approaches to causality in language. The chapter’s main phenomenological focus is on causal relations as expressed intra-clausally by verbs (e.g., break, open) and between sentences by discourse markers (e.g., because, therefore). Special attention is given to implicit causality verbs that are argued to trigger expectations of explanations to occur in subsequent discourse. The chapter also discusses linguistic expressions that do not encode causation as such, but that seem to be dependent on a causal model for their adequate evaluation, such as counterfactual conditionals. The discussion of the phenomena is complemented by an overview of important aspects of their cognitive processing as revealed by psycholinguistic experimentation.
Keywords: causality, language, causative verbs, discourse, implicit causality, psycholinguistics
Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin, Germany
University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
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- Oxford Library of Psychology
- The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Causal Reasoning: An Introduction
- Associative Accounts of Causal Cognition
- Rules of Causal Judgment: Mapping Statistical Information onto Causal Beliefs
- The Inferential Reasoning Theory of Causal Learning: Toward a Multi-Process Propositional Account
- Causal Invariance as an Essential Constraint for Creating a Causal Representation of the World: Generalizing the Invariance of Causal Power
- The Acquisition and Use of Causal Structure Knowledge
- Formalizing Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction
- Causal Mechanisms
- Force Dynamics
- Mental Models and Causation
- Pseudocontingencies
- Singular Causation
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Causal Reasoning
- Visual Impressions of Causality
- Goal-Directed Actions
- Planning and Control
- Reinforcement Learning and Causal Models
- Causation and the Probability of Causal Conditionals
- Causal Models and Conditional Reasoning
- Concepts as Causal Models: Categorization
- Concepts as Causal Models: Induction
- Causal Explanation
- Diagnostic Reasoning
- Inferring Causal Relations by Analogy
- Causal Argument
- Causality in Decision-Making
- Intuitive Theories
- Space, Time, and Causality
- Causation in Legal and Moral Reasoning
- The Role of Causal Knowledge in Reasoning About Mental Disorders
- Causality and Causal Reasoning in Natural Language
- Social Attribution and Explanation
- The Development of Causal Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning in Non-Human Animals
- Causal Cognition and Culture
- Index
