Jaszczolt / Allan Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-027067-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 238 Seiten

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.

Jaszczolt, Kasia M.

Allan, Keith

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contributors;7
2;Chapter 1. Introduction;9
3;Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing;19
4;Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres;43
5;Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation;61
6;Chapter 5. Salience in language production;89
7;Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation;111
8;Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accessibility;159
9;Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon;173
10;Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction;197
11;Index;235

Über Autor(innen)

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