Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures
Author:   Salvatore Pistoia Reda
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9781137333278


Pages:   242
Publication Date:   02 September 2014
Format:   Hardback
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This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.

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Author:   Salvatore Pistoia Reda
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.238kg
ISBN:  

9781137333278


ISBN 10:   1137333278
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   02 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate; Salvatore Pistoia Reda 2. The Roots of (Scalar) Implicatures; Laurence Horn 3. On the Roles of Markedness and Contradiction in the Use of Alternatives; Roni Katzir 4. Intermediate Scalar Implicatures; Uli Sauerland 5. An Account for the Homogeneity Effect Triggered by Plural Definites and Conjunction Based on Double Strengthening; Giorgio Magri 6. Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge; Benjamin Spector 7. Pragmatic Back-and-forth Reasoning; Michael Franke and Gerhard Jäger, 8. Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures Share the Same Processing Signature; Alexandre Cremers and Emmanuel Chemla ?

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Emmanuel Chemla, École Normale Supérieure, France Alexandre Cremers, École Normale Supérieure, France Michael Franke, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Laurence Horn, Yale University, USA Gerhard Jäger Tübingen University, Germany Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University, Israel Giorgio Magri, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Uli Sauerland, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Germany Benjamin Spector, Institut Jean Nicod, France

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