Experimental pragmatics/semantics / edited by Jörg Meibauer, Markus Steinbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meibauer, Jörg.

Steinbach, Markus.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 175.

Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 175

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Reference (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

x, 240 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

1.1 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

Discourse under control in ambiguous sentences

2. Satisfaction of the Question-Answer-Requirement.

3. Non-adult interpretations with modals

3.1 Experiment I: Children's interpretation of potere and negation in Italian

3.2 Experiment II: Evaluation of the Question-Answer-Requirement

4. General discussion

Pragmatic children

2. Focus particles and children's acquisition task

3. Previous studies on children's comprehension of sentences with only

4. The study

4.1 Experiment 1

4.1.1 Participants

4.1.2 Materials and procedure

4.1.3 Results

4.1.4 Discussion

4.2 Experiment 2

4.2.1 Participants

4.2.2 Material and procedure

4.2.3 Results

4.2.4 Discussion

5. General Discussion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Adult response uniformity distinguishes semantics from pragmatics

2. Some of) the semantic and pragmatic meanings of coordination

2.1 Truth-conditional semantic meaning

2.2 Pragmatic meaning

2.3 Non-truth-conditional arbitrary meaning

3. Hypotheses and predictions

3.1 Hypotheses and predictions for adults

3.2 Hypotheses and predictions for children

4. The experiment

4.1 The task and materials

4.1.1 Condition 1

4.1.2 Condition 2

4.1.3 Condition 3

4.1.4 Condition 4

4.1.5 Condition 5

4.1.6 Condition 6

5. Results and discussion

5.1 The adult results

5.1.1 Semantic meaning

5.1.2 Pragmatic meaning

5.2 The child results

5.2.1 Semantic meaning

5.2.2 Pragmatic meaning

5.3 Summary of results

6. Summary and general discussion

6.1 Adult response (non)uniformity for semantics and pragmatics

6.2 Interpreting child responses to tests of semantic and pragmatic meaning

7. Response uniformity cross-linguistically

8. Theoretical and experimental criteria for distinguishing semantics and pragmatics

9. Conclusions

References.

Numerals and scalar implicatures

2. An overview of theoretical approaches to Scalar Implicatures

3. Numerals and Scalar Implicatures

4. Experiment 1: An off line semantic judgment test

5. Experiment 2: An online processing experiment

6. Conclusions

Meaning in the objects

1.1 A symbol influences object perception

1.2 Semiotic character of objects

2. Method

2.1 Subjects

2.2 Stimuli

2.3 Procedure

2.4 Category system for nonverbal performance

3. Results and Discussion

3.1 Cross-linguistic findings on age, lexicon and performance

3.2 Gestural type in canonical vs. noncanonical settings

3.3 Discussion

3.4 Conclusions

Blocking modal enrichment (Tatsächlich)

2. Modal enrichment

3. Blocking modal enrichment

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

The hepatitis called …

2. Enriched composition

3. Revious electrophysiological evidence

4. Empirical evidence for enriched composition during reference transfer

4.1 ERP study

4.2 Norming study

The role of QUD and focus on the scalar implicature of most

2. Experiment 1

2.1 Setup and items

2.2 Design

2.3 Participants and procedure

2.4 Results and discussion

Results of the wh-QUD conditions

Results of the yes/no-QUD conditions

3. Experiment 2

3.1 Setup, items, design and procedure

3.2 Participants

3.3 Results and Discussion

4. General Discussion

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613059406

9789027287151

9027287155

9781283059404

1283059401

OCLC:

713010208