Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-027058-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 231 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation of the literal/nonliteral distinction to the distinction between the automatic and conscious retrieval of information. The question of literal meaning is inherently interwoven with the question of lexical salience on one hand and default interpretations on the other. This volume addresses these interconnected issues, stressing their mutual interdependence. It contributes new, ground-breaking insights into the questions of literalness, semantics-pragmatics interface, automatic (default) retrieval and contextual pragmatic enrichment, modelling of discourse processing, lexical pragmatics, and other related issues.

Zielgruppe

Advanced Students and Researchers in Pragmatics, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allan, Keith

Jaszczolt, Kasia M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Kasia M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge,
UK, and Keith Allan, Monash University, Australia.