Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Assisted by: ALLAN (Editor), Allan (Editor), Keith Allan (Editor), Kasia M. Jaszczolt (Editor), Kasia M. 10001053019 Jaszczolt (Editor), Kasi M Jaszczolt (Editor), Kasia M Jaszczolt (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9783110270587
• ISBN: 978-3-11-027058-7
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 18 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Illustrations: 16 b/w ill., 12 b/w tbl.
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics; Mouton Series in Pragmatics; Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics