The Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures
Author: Stefanie Röhrig
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 3941875493
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Implicatures
Author: Sandrine Zufferey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107125650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an accessible and thorough introduction to implicatures in pragmatics, and its interfaces with language and cognition.
Quantity Implicatures
Author: Bart Geurts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1139493264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, quantity implicatures - a type of pragmatic inference - have been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, and have been subject to an enormous variety of analyses, ranging from lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic, to various hybrid accounts. In this first book-length discussion of the topic, Bart Geurts presents a theory of quantity implicatures that is resolutely pragmatic, arguing that the orthodox Gricean approach to conversational implicature is capable of accounting for all the standard cases of quantity implicature, and more. He shows how the theory deals with free-choice inferences as merely a garden variety of quantity implicatures, and gives an in-depth treatment of so-called 'embedded implicatures'. Moreover, as well as offering a comprehensive theory of quantity implicatures, he also takes into account experimental data and processing issues. Original and pioneering, and avoiding technical terminology, this insightful study will be invaluable to linguists, philosophers, and experimental psychologists alike.
Experimental Pragmatics
Author: Ira Noveck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-11
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107084903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the phenomena, theoretical debates, experiments and historical development of experimental pragmatics, which investigates how utterances communicate a speaker's intended meaning.
Scalar Implicatures
Author: Penka Stateva
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 2889631346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScalar implicatures have enjoyed the status of one of the most researched topics in both theoretical and experimental pragmatics in recent years. This Research Topic presents new developments in studying the comprehension, as well as the production of scalar inferences, suggests new testing paradigms that trigger important discussions about the methodology of experimental investigation, explores the effect of prosody and context on inference rates. To a great extent the articles reflect the state of the art in the domain and outline promising paths for future research.
Semantics in Language Acquisition
Author: Kristen Syrett
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-08-02
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9027263604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical content and inferences on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the papers in this volume introduce the reader to the variety of ways in which children come to realize that semantic content is encoded in word meaning (for example, in the event semantics of the verbal domain or the scope of logical operators), and at the level of the sentence, which requires the composition of semantic meaning. The authors represent some of the most established and promising researchers in this domain, demonstrating collective expertise in a range of methodologies and topics relevant to the acquisition of semantics. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students and faculty, and junior and seasoned researchers alike.
The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
Author: Shalom Lappin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 771
ISBN-13: 1119046823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics. Features completely new content from the first edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory Features contributions by leading semanticists, who introduce core areas of contemporary semantic research, while discussing current research Suitable for graduate students for courses in semantic theory and for advanced researchers as an introduction to current theoretical work
Scalar Implicatures and Beyond
Author: Daniele Panizza
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Published: 2024-07-05
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1804416665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comprehensive survey on the study of scalar implicatures, a central topic in modern pragmatics. This multidimensional and interdisciplinary topic is intensely studied in contemporary linguistics, psycholinguistics, and philosophy of language. Being one of the most prominent topics in pragmatics, they offer a window into the mind of communicative agents. On the one hand, scalar implicatures are closely related to the lexicon and grammar of natural languages. On the other hand, they shed light on how the linguistic meaning is enriched with context and speakers’ intentions and knowledge. Starting from an overview of the classic Gricean theory and the theoretical development introduced by post-Gricean scholars, the book illustrates the modern accounts of scalar implicatures across the domains of theoretical linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. The central part of the book is devoted to the review of the most influential studies on the acquisition, comprehension, and processing of these pragmatic inferences. The last part of the volume focuses on open issues concerning scalar implicatures by illustrating recent experimental studies and theoretical accounts advanced by the authors in collaboration with several scholars.
The Role of Alternatives in Language
Author: Sophie Repp
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2021-06-21
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 2889668401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresumptive Meanings
Author: Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000-04-24
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780262621304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. Levinson outlines a theory of presumptive meanings, or preferred interpretations, governing the use of language, building on the idea of implicature developed by the philosopher H.P. Grice. Some of the indirect information carried by speech is presumed by default because it is carried by general principles, rather than inferred from specific assumptions about intention and context. Levinson examines this class of general pragmatic inferences in detail, showing how they apply to a wide range of linguistic constructions. This approach has radical consequences for how we think about language and communication.
