This volume comprises thirteen original research papers and three overview papers presenting new work using a number of experimental techniques from psycho- and neurolinguistics in the three key areas of current semantics and pragmatics: implicature, negation and presupposition. INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - PART I: IMPLICATURE - Implicatures; M.Krifka - Changes in Activation Levels with Scalar Implicatures; L.Bott - A Large-Scale Investigation of Scalar Implicature; P.Hendriks , J.Hoeks , H.De Hoop , I.Krämer , E-J.Smits , J.Spenader ; H.De Swart -Evaluating Under-Informative Utterances with Context-Dependent and Context-Independent Scales: Experimental and Theoretical Implications; N.Katsos - Distinguishing the SAID from the IMPLICATED Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm; M.Larson , R.Doran , Y.Mcnabb , R.Baker , M.Berends , A.Djalali , ; G.Ward - Experiments on QUD and Focus as a Contextual Constraint on Scalar Implicature Calculation; A.Zondervan - PART II: NEGATION - Meaning and Inference Linked to Negation: An Experimental Pragmatic Approach; I.A.Noveck - The DE-Blocking Hypothesis: The Role of Grammar in Scalar Reasoning; A.Bezuidenhout , R.Morris ; C.Widmann - Experimental Pragmatics and Parsimony: The Case of Scopally AmbiguousSentences Containing Negation; A.Gualmini - How are Pragmatic Differences Between Positive and Negative Sentences Captured in the Processes and Representations in Language Comprehension; B.Kaup - Brain Potentials For Logical-Semantics/-Pragmatics; J.E.Drury ; K.Steinhauer - PART III: PRESUPPOSITION - Presupposition: From Theory to Experiment; U.Sauerland - The Real-Time Use of Information about Common Ground in Restricting Domains of Reference; D.Heller , D.Grodner ; M.K.Tanenhaus - An Experimental Approach of Adverbial Modification; E.Chemla - Weak Definite Noun Phrases: Rich, But Not Strong, Special, But Not Unique; N.M.Klein , W.M.Gegg-Harrison , R.S.Sussman , G.N.Carlson ; M.K.Tanenhaus -The Neuropragmatics of 'Simple' Utterance Comprehension an Erp Review; J.J.A.Van Berkum - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57906-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés