Alternative Sets in Language Processing

Nicole Gotzner

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psyc... Lees meer

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and defin... Lees meer

Saying, Meaning and Referring

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• François Recanati has proposed a wide-ranging truth-conditional model of pragmatics. In this collection, his theories are addressed by distinguished c... Lees meer

Accentuation and Interpretation

H Schmitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Speech communication can be disturbed. However, humans can understand utterances even if they do not recognise all the words. They just have to recogn... Lees meer

Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes

Filippo Domaneschi

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for gr... Lees meer

Harmful Speech and Contestation

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This edited book explores how harmful speech works, how it can be used to change societies in bad ways and how we can defend against it. Harmful speec... Lees meer

Measurements, Numerals and Scales

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent de... Lees meer

Conditionals

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psy... Lees meer

Assertion

M Jary

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosoph... Lees meer

Vagueness and Language Use

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vag... Lees meer

Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes

Filippo Domaneschi

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for gr... Lees meer

Explicit Communication

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussi... Lees meer

Alternatives in Semantics

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Alternatives in Semantics is the first volume to focus on alternatives as a key theme. It offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and ... Lees meer

Assertion

M Jary

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosoph... Lees meer

Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

Richard Breheny

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book explores how three groups of girls from varying backgrounds, including a prestigious public school, London's East End and the British Bangla... Lees meer

Context, Cognition and Conditionals

Chi-Hé Elder

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii... Lees meer

Alternative Sets in Language Processing

Nicole Gotzner

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psyc... Lees meer

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contri... Lees meer

Conditionals

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psy... Lees meer

Semantics and Pragmatics

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This volume explores the themes of implicatures, negation and presupposition. It is an up-to-date account of current research as well as an overview o... Lees meer

Measurements, Numerals and Scales

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book brings together chapters on the semantics and pragmatics of measurement, scales, and numerical expressions. The chapters highlight recent de... Lees meer

Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

Kenneth A Loparo

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This book contains an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics over the past ... Lees meer

Vagueness and Language Use

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vag... Lees meer

Accentuation and Interpretation

H Schmitz

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
• Develops a highly original theory of accentuation in which accentuation serves the mere pragmatic function of making utterances well comprehensible. S... Lees meer