Format:
X, 240 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] MyiLibrary Online-Ressource MyiLibrary
ISBN:
9789027255587
Series Statement:
Linguistics today 175
Content:
Where previous studies supported the effect of the contextual property of Question Under Discussion (QUD) and focus on the scalar implicature of or, this paper presents two experiments that replicate this effect with the scalar term most. Both experiments show that, while story and target sentence are kept constant, more scalar implicatures are calculated when the scalar term is in the focus (new information) part of the sentence. In the experiments, the focus is manipulated by an explicit QUD. It is shown that the effect also holds for sentential answers to yes/no-questions, and might even extend to scalar implicatures in questions themselves.
Content:
Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Testing for scalar implicatures -- 3. Varieties of pragmatic enrichment -- 4. Developmental pragmatics -- 5. Pragmatic impairment -- 6. Processing and the neuronal system -- 7. Variety of methodologies -- 8. The contributions to this volume -- Selected bibliography -- The development of conversational competence in children with Specific Language Impairment -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Children with Specific Language Impairment -- 1.2 Grice's maxims -- Quantity -- Quality -- Relation: Be relevant. -- Manner -- 2. Language-impaired children's conversational skills -- 2.1 General characteristics -- 2.2 Social skills of children with SLI -- 2.3 Adult interaction with language-impaired children -- 3. Language development and early performance on the maxims -- 3.1 Findings of previous studies -- 3.2 Limitations of previous studies -- 4. The present study -- 4.1 Research questions -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.4 Results -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Violation categories and the maxims -- 5.2 Conversational skills of a language impaired child with higher cognitive and language skills -- 5.3 Quantifying and categorizing conversational violations by Children with SLI -- 5.4 Future directions -- 6. Summary -- References -- Appendix -- The impact of literal meaning on what-is-said -- 1. Contextualism: The state of the debate -- 2. Experimental approaches -- 2.1 Noveck and Sperber -- 2.2 Gibbs and Moise -- 2.3 Nicolle and Clark -- 2.4 The status of implicatures -- 3. The method of the study -- 4. Discussion of the results -- 5. Summary -- References -- Appendix -- Discourse under control in ambiguous sentences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Satisfaction of the Question-Answer-Requirement.
Additional Edition:
9789027287151
Additional Edition:
9789027255587
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9789027255587
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Pragmatik
;
Semantik
;
Referenz
;
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