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Author: Michael Blome-Tillmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0199686084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlome-Tillmann puts forth an innovative account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. Using the resulting theory, he establishes its significance for a variety of issues within epistemology and the philosophy of language.
Author: Rainer Bäuerle
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1849507821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUndoubtedly, presupposition theory is a major chapter in the success story of dynamic semantics. This book features papers on this topic based on a conference on "Presupposition" convened in Stuttgart in October 2000.
Author: Choon-Kyu Oh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9004368884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Filippo Domaneschi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-29
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1137579420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language comprehension are complex and demanding cognitive processes. The author demonstrates that these processes exist not only at the explicit level of an utterance but also at a deeper level of computing, where the background information taken for granted as already known and shared between interlocutors is processed. The author shows that experimental research can suggest new theoretical models for presupposition, thus this book will be of interest to researchers and students of psycholinguistics, the philosophy of language and experimental pragmatics.
Author: Marco Fasciolo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1527541894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative volume proposes an overturning in the study of presuppositions. Beginning with a critical discussion of the most influential approaches, both in linguistics and philosophy, it shows that mainstream debate has not actually studied presuppositions, but rather the means to make presuppositions. In order to overcome this paradox, by relying on systematic and controllable linguistic tests, this text demonstrates that presuppositions trace a curve ranging from natural ontology to the lexicon. At the top of the curve are contents working as presuppositions for the whole human form of life and without the need of any trigger. At the bottom are contents working as presuppositions for the time of a speech act and thanks to some trigger. From this original point of view, this book revisits the classic topics of the debate and offers solid linguistic ground to the elucidation of natural ontology. This makes this volume both challenging and essential reading for researchers and scholars in pragmatics, semantics and philosophy of language.
Author: Florian Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-09-12
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 3319079808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properties of presuppositions in various linguistic contexts; comparative perspectives relative to other aspects of meaning, such as asserted content and implicatures; cross-linguistic comparisons of presupposition triggers; and perspectives from language acquisition. Taken together, these novel contributions provide a snapshot of state-of-the art developments in this area and will serve as a point of reference for numerous emerging avenues of future work. It makes for an ideal set of readings for advanced university courses on experimental studies of meaning and is a must-read for anyone interested in experimental research on meaning in natural language.
Author: Salvatore Pistoia-Reda
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-05-03
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 331950696X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature. It provides original discussions of specific formal aspects of the theoretical reconstruction of these phenomena. The authors offer innovative experimental analyses in which crucial processing questions are addressed, and new experimental methodologies are introduced. The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion of the connections between a Compositional Semantics and a Pragmatic Theory of Implicit Communication, in light of the empirical data coming from Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. This book will be a worthwhile read for those with interests in both the formal and methodological aspects of these arguments.
Author: George Yule
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996-06-06
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780194372077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.
Author: Ruth M. Kempson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1975-07-17
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521207331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, first published in 1975, Dr Kempson argues that previous work on presupposition - whether in philosophy or linguistics - has been mistakenly based on a conflation of two different disciplines: semantics, the study of the meanings assigned to the formal system which constitutes a language, and pragmatics, the study of the use of that system in communication. The first part of the book deals generally with the nature of semantics in linguistic theory and its formal representation within a transformational grammar; Dr Kempson argues against incorporating the relation of presupposition within such a grammar. The second part provides a pragmatic account of the foundations of a theory of communication and its detailed application to the problems raised by presupposition. The book is intended for those studying both philosophy and linguistics and also for those sociolinguists and psychologists with a more general interest in the theory of communication.
Author: Ruth M. Kempson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1977-09-15
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521292092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the central topics of linguistic semantics and the philosophy of language, assuming no special knowledge of philosophy or logic.
