基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. How does our knowledge of the language on the one hand, and of the context on the other, permit us to understand what we are told, to resolve ambiguities, to grasp both explicit and implicit content, to appreciate metaphor and irony? These issues have been studied in two disciplines: Linguistic Pragmatics and Psycholinguistics, with only limited interactions between the two. This volume lays down the bases for a new field: Experimental Pragmatics. Contributions review pioneering work and present novel ways of articulating theories and experimental methods in the area.
Full Description
How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which models of language and meaning are tested and compared using techniques from psycholinguistics.
Contents
Introduction; I.Noveck & D.Sperber PART I: PIONEERING APPROACHES Changing Ideas about Reference; H.H.Clark & A.Bangerter On the Automaticity of Pragmatic Processes: A Modular Proposal; S.Glucksberg Psycholinguistic Experiments and Linguistic Pragmatics; R.W.Gibbs Jr. Reasoning, Judgment and Pragmatics; G.Politzer Exploring Quantifiers: Pragmatics Meets the Psychology of Comprehension; A.J.Sanford & L.Moxey PART II: CURRENT ISSUES IN EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS Testing the Cognitive and Communicative Principles of Relevance; J-B.Van der Henst & D.Sperber Contextual Strength: The Whens and Hows of Context Effects; O.Peleg, R.Giora & O.Fein Electrophysiology and Pragmatic Language Comprehension; S.Coulson Speech Acts in Children: The Example of Promises; J.Bernicot & V.Laval Reasoning and Pragmatics: The Case of Even If ; S.J.Handley & A.Feeney PART III: THE CASE OF SCALAR IMPLICATURES Implicature, Relevance, and Default Pragmatic Inference; A.L.Bezuidenhout & R.K.Morris Semantic and Pragmatic Competence in Children's and Adults' Comprehension of 'or'; G.Chierchia, M.T.Guasti, A.Gualmini, L.Meroni , S.Crain & F.Foppolo Pragmatic Inferences Related to Logical Terms; I.A.Noveck Conversational Implicatures: Nonce or Generalized?; A.Reboul Index
