Scalar Implicature

How Scalar Interpretation Varies and Unfolds in Real Time
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-35775-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

This book takes the classic inference from  to  as a starting point to examine why scalar interpretations vary across expressions and how pragmatic enrichment unfolds in real-time comprehension. Drawing on judgment experiments, corpus-based materials, and L2 learner data, it demonstrates that cross-scale differences in implicature behavior are associated with scale structure and with the extent to which scalar expressions support different forms of pragmatic enrichment. Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking further suggests that pragmatic enrichment can emerge rapidly as comprehension unfolds. Together, these findings broaden the empirical basis for theories of scalar implicature and shed new light on the pragmatic reasoning through which scalar expressions are enriched. Scalar implicature has long provided a window into how listeners go beyond literal meaning in interpreting utterances, and this book will be of interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sun, Chao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Mathematische Logik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Theoretical Approaches to Scalar Implicature.- Chapter 3 Scalar Diversity and Its Contributing Factors.- Chapter 4 Scalar Diversity in Naturally Occurring Language.- Chapter 5 Scalar Diversity in a Second Language.- Chapter 6 The Time Course of Scalar Implicature.- Chapter 7 Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Chao Sun is an Assistant Professor at the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, China. She received her PhD in Linguistics from University College London, UK and was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on experimental semantics and pragmatics, with particular interest in how linguistic meaning is enriched in context.