Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions

This 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...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Pistoia-Reda, Salvatore (Editor), Domaneschi, Filippo (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesPalgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319506968
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-50696-8
Physical DescriptionX, 241 p. 13 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • - Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Meaning and Communication (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Filippo Domaneschi)
  • Blindness, Short-sightedness, and Hirschberg's contextually ordered alternatives: a reply to Schlenker (2012) (Giorgio Magri)
  • Remarks on oddness and conjunction (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Jacopo Romoli)
  • A fine-grained global analysis of implicatures (Robert van Rooij)
  • Probability Judgments of Gappy Sentences (Alexandre Cremers, Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla)
  • Presuppositions are challenging not only for preschoolers, but also for school-aged children (Francesca Foppolo and Francesca Panzeri)
  • The connection between focus and implicatures: Investigating alternative activation under working memory load (Nicole Gotzner and Katharina Spalek)
  • Presuppositional Anaphora Is The Sobel Truth (Daniel Dohrn).