Salience and defaults in utterance processing

Salience and defaults in utterance processing / ed. by Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Keith Allan.

The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation of the literal/nonliteral distinction to the distinction between the automatic and conscious retrieva...

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Other Authors: Jaszczolt, Katarzyna, Allan, Keith, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Series:Mouton series in pragmatics ; 12.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology.
Cognition.
cognition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Pragmatics.
Cognition
Discourse analysis > Social aspects
Grammar, Comparative and general > Phonology
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing
  • Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres
  • Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation
  • Chapter 5. Salience in language production
  • Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation
  • Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accesibility
  • Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon
  • Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction
  • Index.

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