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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pistoia-Reda, Salvatore (Editor), Domaneschi, Filippo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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)