Natural language and artificial technology-it ain't necessarily so

Abstract

The paper takes its point of departure in issues that have been discussed previously by the author (H. Haberland, 1995; 1996, 1997). In these contributions, the author has tried to explore the implications of some obvious parallels between the linguistic discipline of pragmatics (H. Haberland and J.L. Mey, 1977; J. Verschueren, 1987) and the concept of cognitive technology as explicated by B. Gorayska and J.L. Mey (1996), and B. Gorayska and J. Marsh (1996).