ISBN:
9780230524125
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Pragmatics
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Electronic books
Abstract:
How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which models of language and meaning are tested and compared using techniques from psycholinguistics.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Pioneering Approaches -- 2 Changing Ideas about Reference -- 3 Psycholinguistic Experiments and Linguistic-Pragmatics -- 4 On the Automaticity of Pragmatic Processes: a Modular Proposal -- 5 Reasoning, Judgement and Pragmatics -- 6 Exploring Quantifiers: Pragmatics Meets the Psychology of Comprehension -- Part II Current Issues in Experimental Pragmatics -- 7 Testing the Cognitive and Communicative Principles of Relevance -- 8 Contextual Strength: the Whens and Hows of Context Effects -- 9 Electrophysiology and Pragmatic Language Comprehension -- 10 Speech Acts in Children: the Example of Promises -- 11 Reasoning and Pragmatics: the Case of Even-If -- Part III The Case of Scalar Implicatures -- 12 Implicature, Relevance and Default Pragmatic Inference -- 13 Semantic and Pragmatic Competence in Children's and Adults' Comprehension of Or -- 14 Pragmatic Inferences Related to Logical Terms -- 15 Conversational Implicatures: Nonce or Generalized? -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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