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Scalar Implicatures, Communication, and Language Evolution
2010This text deals with Scalar Implicatures (SIs). According to the main tenets of Grice, derivation of SIs is a pragmatic phenomenon that occurs at the root of the sentence, in a global fashion. This is the so-called “globalism”. Theorists like Chierchia argue that in order to get specific readings otherwise unavailable SIs can (and in fact must) occur ...
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Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate
2014The purpose of this book is to provide a discussion forum for participants in the recent scalar implicatures debate. The bulk of contributions are formal, except for two. Larry Horn’s chapter, which opens the book, provides an interesting and remarkably documented investigation on the phenomenon’s historic development, evoking proto-pragmatic accounts ...
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The case of scalar implicature processing
2019Implicatures like ‘Some politicians are smart’ (interpreted as ‘Some but not all politicians are smart’) are defined scalar implicatures. A heated linguistic debate has focused on how we derive those implicatures: some authors consider the computational process as linguistic in nature (Levinson, 2000), others as pragmatic in nature (Sperber & Wilson ...
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Scalar Implicatures and Beyond
This book offers a comprehensive survey on the study of scalar implicatures, a central topic in modern pragmatics. This multidimensional and interdisciplinary topic is intensely studied in contemporary linguistics, psycholinguistics, and philosophy of language.openaire +1 more source
The semantics/pragmatics interface from an experimental perspective: the case of scalar implicature
SynthÈse, 2007Napoleon Katsos, Katsos Napoleon
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Pragmatic tolerance: Implications for the acquisition of informativeness and implicature
Cognition, 2011Napoleon Katsos, Dorothy V M Bishop
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