Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2011

Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

Edited by: Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Keith Allan

Volume 12 in the series Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270679

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Chapter 1. Introduction Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing Kasia M. Jaszczolt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres Orna Peleg and Rachel Giora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation Eleni Kapogianni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 5. Salience in language production Istvan Kecskes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation Alyson Pitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accesibility Morton Ann Gernsbacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon Keith Allan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction Michael Haugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Advanced Students and Researchers in Pragmatics, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Language
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 231
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Tables: 12
Keywords: Linguistic Defaults; Utterance Processing; Semantic/Pragmatic Interface; Salience

eBook

Published: October 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110270679

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110270587