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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253356103321

Autore

Domaneschi Filippo

Titolo

Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes : Understanding the Information Taken for Granted / / by Filippo Domaneschi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137579423

1137579420

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 164 p. 10 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, , 2946-2584

Disciplina

410.1835

Soggetti

Psycholinguistics

Pragmatics

Language and languages - Philosophy

Linguistics

Cognitive psychology

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics

Philosophy of Language

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar

Cognitive Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Experimental Pragmatics -- Chapter 2: Presuppositions -- Chapter 3: Mental States and Presuppositions. An Experiment -- Chapter 4: Processing Presupposition Triggers -- Chapter 5: Processing Conditional and Unconditional Presuppositions -- Chapter 6: The Cognitive Load Factor -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language comprehension are complex and demanding cognitive processes. The author demonstrates that these processes exist not only at the explicit level of an utterance but also at a deeper level of computing, where the background information taken for granted as already known and



shared between interlocutors is processed. The author shows that experimental research can suggest new theoretical models for presupposition, thus this book will be of interest to researchers and students of psycholinguistics, the philosophy of language and experimental pragmatics. Filippo Domaneschi is Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology of Language at the University of Genoa, Italy and he is director of the research project EXPRESS– Experimenting on presuppositions. He is author of various psycholinguistic papers in scientific journals, and he is author of Introduction to pragmatics (2014, tr. engl.), co-editor of What is said and what is not (2013) and editor of the special issuePresuppositions: philosophy, linguistics and psychology (2016).