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Subject(s)

• Pragmatics [Browse]
• Semantics [Browse]

Editor

• Cummins, Chris [Browse]
• Katsos, Napoleon [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

Exploring the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, this volume offers an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning thirty-one different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. In the past twenty years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 8, 2019).

Contents

• Language comprehension, inference, and alternatives / Dimitrios Skordos, David Barner
• Event (De)composition / Sherry Yong Chen, E. Matthew Husband
• Focus / Christina S. Kim
• Genericity / Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
• Distributivity / Kristen Syrett
• Modified numerals / Rick Nouwen, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Yaron McNabb
• Ironic utterances / Nicola Spotorno, Ira Noveck
• Exhaustivity in it-clefts / Edgar Onea
• Spatial terms / Myrto Grigoroglou, Anna Papafragou
• Metaphor / Nausicaa Pouscoulous, Giulio Dulcinati
• Verbal uncertainty / Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, Jean-Franðcois Bonnefon
• Word senses / Hugh Rabagliati, Mahesh Srinivasan
• Pronouns / Hannah Rohde
• Plurality / Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli
• Theory of Mind / Paula Rubio-Fernâandez
• Vagueness / Sam Alxatib, Uli Sauerland
• Metonymy / Petra B. Schumacher
• Presuppositions, projection, and accommodation / Florian Schwarz
• Adjective meaning and scales / Stephanie Solt
• Negation / Ye Tian, Richard Breheny
• Quantification / Adrian Brasoveanu, Jakub Dotlačil
• Prosody and meaning / Judith Tonhauser
• Negative polarity items / Ming Xiang
• Politeness / Thomas M. Holtgraves
• Introduction / Chris Cummins, Napolean Katsos
• Antecedent-contained deletion / Kristen Syrett
• Scalar implicatures / Richard Breheny
• Quantifier spreading / Patricia J. Brooks, Olga Parshina
• Reference and informativeness / Catherine Davies, Jennifer E. Arnold
• Turn-taking / Jan P. de Ruiter
• Constraint-based pragmatic processing / Judith Degen, Michael K. Tanenhaus
• Counterfactuals / Heather Ferguson.

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Other title(s)

Experimental semantics and pragmatics

ISBN

• 0-19-250955-1
• 0-19-250954-3
• 0-19-183405-X

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