Presuppositions and Discourse

Presuppositions and Discourse
Author: Rainer Bäuerle
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010
Genre: Context (Linguistics)
ISBN: 1849507821

Undoubtedly, presupposition theory is a major chapter in the success story of dynamic semantics. This book features papers on this topic based on a conference on "Presupposition" convened in Stuttgart in October 2000.

Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
Author: Reinhard Blutner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-12-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230501400

Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.

Knowledge and Presuppositions

Knowledge and Presuppositions
Author: Michael Blome-Tillmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199686084

Blome-Tillmann puts forth an innovative account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. Using the resulting theory, he establishes its significance for a variety of issues within epistemology and the philosophy of language.

The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Author: Chris Cummins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1125
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192509551

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research. Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
Author: Shalom Lappin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119046823

The second edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory presents a comprehensive introduction to cutting-edge research in contemporary theoretical and computational semantics. Features completely new content from the first edition of The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory Features contributions by leading semanticists, who introduce core areas of contemporary semantic research, while discussing current research Suitable for graduate students for courses in semantic theory and for advanced researchers as an introduction to current theoretical work

Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions

Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions
Author: Florian Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-09-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319079808

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.

Scientific Method in Practice

Scientific Method in Practice
Author: Hugh G. Gauch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521017084

As the gateway to scientific thinking, an understanding of the scientific method is essential for success and productivity in science. This book is the first synthesis of the practice and the philosophy of the scientific method. It will enable scientists to be better scientists by offering them a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of the scientific method, thereby leading to more productive research and experimentation. It will also give scientists a more accurate perspective on the rationality of the scientific approach and its role in society. Beginning with a discussion of today's 'science wars' and science's presuppositions, the book then explores deductive and inductive logic, probability, statistics, and parsimony, and concludes with an examination of science's powers and limits, and a look at science education. Topics relevant to a variety of disciplines are treated, and clarifying figures, case studies, and chapter summaries enhance the pedagogy. This adeptly executed, comprehensive, yet pragmatic work yields a new synergy suitable for scientists and instructors, and graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures

The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures
Author: Anita Steube
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2008-11-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110209306

The volume demonstrates the interdependence of man’s language capacity and his other conceptual capacities. This enables linguistic structures to be minimalised, and for extra-linguistic domains to provide much of the interpretations of sound and meaning. Underspecification is demonstrated in the word formation of Indo-European, Late Archaic Chinese and modern Khmer; on the word- and sentence levels by the event structures of German; and in the information structure predominantly of languages with the so-called free word order: German, Slavic languages, Arabic compared with English and the tone language Hausa. The volume is noteworthy due to the close cooperation between theoretical and experimental research. Within grammar, it has especially strengthened prosodic research and the syntax-phonology interrelations and their interpretations, and it has helped to create data bases for the relations within texts and to evaluate the findings.

The Oxford Handbook of Negation

The Oxford Handbook of Negation
Author: Viviane Déprez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2020
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198830521

This volume offers reviews of cross-linguistic research on the major classic issues in negation, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume will be an essential reference on the topic of negation for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines.