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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781515303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011

ISBN

1-283-43067-3

9786613430670

3-11-027067-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Mouton series in pragmatics ; ; 12

Classificazione

ER 940

Altri autori (Persone)

JaszczoltKatarzyna

AllanKeith <1943->

Disciplina

401/.45

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction / Allan, Keith / Jaszczolt, Kasia M. -- Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing / Jaszczolt, Kasia M. -- Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres / Peleg, Orna / Giora, Rachel -- Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation / Kapogianni, Eleni -- Chapter 5. Salience in language production / Kecskes, Istvan -- Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation / Pitts, Alyson -- Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accesibility / Gernsbacher, Morton Ann -- Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon / Allan, Keith -- Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction / Haugh, Michael -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 retrieval of information. The question of literal meaning is inherently interwoven with the question of lexical salience on one



hand and default interpretations on the other. This volume addresses these interconnected issues, stressing their mutual interdependence. It contributes new, ground-breaking insights into the questions of literalness, semantics-pragmatics interface, automatic (default) retrieval and contextual pragmatic enrichment, modelling of discourse processing, lexical pragmatics, and other related issues.