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Title Experimental pragmatics/semantics / edited by Jorg Meibauer, Markus Steinbach
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
Series Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 175
Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today ; v. 175
Contents Experimental Pragmatics/Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of contributors; Introduction; The development of conversational competence in children with Specific Language Impairment; The impact of literal meaning on what-is-said; Discourse under control in ambiguous sentences; Pragmatic children; Adult response uniformity distinguishes semantics from pragmatics; Numerals and scalar implicatures; Meaning in the objects; Blocking modal enrichment (Tatsächlich); The hepatitis called ... ; The role of QUD and focus on the scalar implicature of most
IndexThe series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Summary In recent years, a lively debate ensued on an old issue, namely the proper distinction between semantics and pragmatics against the background of the classical Gricean distinction between 'what is said' and 'what is implicated'. From a linguist's point of view, however, there has always been a regrettable lack of empirical data in this otherwise sophisticated debate. Recently, a new strand of research emerged under the name of experimental pragmatics, the attempt to gain experimental data on pragmatic and semantic issues by using psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods. This volume brings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pragmatics.
Semantics.
Reference (Linguistics)
Semantics
pragmatics.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Pragmatics.
Pragmatics
Reference (Linguistics)
Semantics
Form Electronic book
Author Meibauer, Jörg
Steinbach, Markus.
LC no. 2011000205
ISBN 9789027287151
9027287155
9786613059406
6613059404
1283059401
9781283059404