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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 analyses in which crucial processing questions are addressed, and new experimental methodologies are introduced. The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion of the connections between a Compositional Semantics and a Pragmatic Theory of Implicit Communication, in light of the empirical data coming from Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. This book will be a worthwhile read for those with interests in both the formal and methodological aspects of these arguments.
List 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 Kriz, 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).
About the author
Salvatore Pistoia-Reda is a Researcher at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Germany, and a Research Fellow at Università di Siena, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive (DISPOC), Italy. He is the author of various publications in the Philosophy of Language, particularly in Semantics and Pragmatics. He holds or has held fellowships with several international institutions, including the Fulbright and the Humboldt foundations.
Filippo Domaneschi is Lecturer and Researcher in the Psychology of Language at the University of Genoa, Italy, and is Director of the research project EXPRESS – Experimenting on Presuppositions. He is author of various psycholinguistic papers in scientific journals, and of Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes (2016), Introduction to Pragmatics (2014), and is co-editor of What is Said and What is Not (2013,) and editor of the special issue, Presuppositions: Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology (2016).
Summary
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 analyses in which crucial processing questions are addressed, and new experimental methodologies are introduced. The result is an advanced debate featuring broad empirical coverage of the issues, as well as an informed discussion of the connections between a Compositional Semantics and a Pragmatic Theory of Implicit Communication, in light of the empirical data coming from Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. This book will be a worthwhile read for those with interests in both the formal and methodological aspects of these arguments.
