Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

✍ Scribed by Florian Schwarz (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 45
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properties of presuppositions in various linguistic contexts; comparative perspectives relative to other aspects of meaning, such as asserted content and implicatures; cross-linguistic comparisons of presupposition triggers; and perspectives from language acquisition. Taken together, these novel contributions provide a snapshot of state-of-the art developments in this area and will serve as a point of reference for numerous emerging avenues of future work. It makes for an ideal set of readings for advanced university courses on experimental studies of meaning and is a must-read for anyone interested in experimental research on meaning in natural language.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Presuppositions in Context—Theoretical Issues and Experimental Perspectives....Pages 1-37
Presupposition Processing and Accommodation: An Experiment on wieder (‘again’) and Consequences for Other Triggers....Pages 39-65
Resolving Temporary Referential Ambiguity Using Presupposed Content....Pages 67-87
Presuppositions vs. Asserted Content in Online Processing....Pages 89-108
Presupposition Satisfaction, Locality and Discourse Constituency....Pages 109-134
A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Non-at-issueness of Exhaustive Inferences....Pages 135-156
A Cross-Linguistic Study on Information Backgrounding and Presupposition Projection....Pages 157-172
Weak and Strong Triggers....Pages 173-193
Symmetry and Incrementality in Conditionals....Pages 195-213
An Experimental Comparison Between Presuppositions and Indirect Scalar Implicatures....Pages 215-240
Three-Year-Olds’ Understanding of Know and Think ....Pages 241-262

✦ Subjects

Psycholinguistics; Semantics

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