Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing
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Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

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.

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Yes, you can access Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing by Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Keith Allan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contributors
  2. Chapter 1. Introduction
  3. Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing
  4. Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres
  5. Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation
  6. Chapter 5. Salience in language production
  7. Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation
  8. Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accessibility
  9. Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon
  10. Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction
  11. Index