Experimental pragmatics : the making of a cognitive science /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title page; Imprints page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Defining Pragmatics: The What, the How, and Areas of Disagreement; Sources of Gappiness: A Nonexhaustive List; Indexicals; Background Knowledge; Unarticulated Constituents; Multiple Meanings; Underspecificity; Attitudes; How to Conceive of Gaps and the Ways to Bridge Them; Where Do We Go from Here?; Notes; 2 Grice's Monumental Proposal and Reactions to It; Natural versus Nonnatural Meaning; What Is Said versus What Is Meant; Reactions
- Default Accounts: Making Utterances More InformationalRelevance Theory: A Cognitive Account of Communication; Convention and Common Ground: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark; Where Do We Go from Here?; Notes; 3 The Experimentalist's Mindset; Experimental Psychology: A Very Condensed History; Cognitive Psychology Itself Investigates Intuitive Judgments; How Does One Test a Theory?; Relevant Positive Achievements from the Cognitive Sciences; Theory of Mind; Modularity; Where Do We Go from Here?; Notes; 4 A Consideration of Experimental Techniques; Developmental Data
- Reactions at the Millisecond LevelPriming and Probes; Eye-Tracking; Mouse-Tracking; Neuroscientific Methods; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery; Electroencephalography and Evoked Response Potentials; Crowdsourcing; Where Do We Go From Here?; Notes; 5 Early Experimental Pragmatics; On the Positive Side: Grice Helps Explain Nonlogical Responses; Developmental Findings; Linguistic Pragmatic Features in the Heuristics Program; Individual Logical Inferences; On the Negative Side: Extrapolations of Gricean Theory Lead to Disconfirmations; Does Metaphor Require Extra Effort?; Taking Stock; Notes
- 6 How Logical Terms Can Be Enriched: Exposing Semantic-Pragmatic DivergencesPreliminaries; The Investigation of Scalar Implicatures: A Historical Account; When Children Appear More Logical Than Adults: A Seminal Pragmatic Effect; Follow-Up Studies on the Developmental Pragmatic Effect; Processing; A Focus on EyeTracking Studies and What They Reveal About Scalars; Individual Differences; Summing Up; Notes; 7 Grammatical or Semantic Approaches to Scalar Implicatures; On Gricean Claims; Embedded Implicatures; The Syntactic Environment Approach; Phase II: Embedded Cases
- Experiments with Embedded Scalar TermsWhat Have the Experiments on Embedded Implicatures Accomplished?; Notes; 8 Conditionals; Enrichments Linked to Conditionals Do Not Line Up With Those of Scalars; The Development of the Comprehension of Conditionals; Reaction Time Data; Individual Differences; Doing Experimental Pragmatics on Conditionals; Notes; 9 Referring; Developmental Studies; Linguistically Based Reference and the Semantic/Pragmatic Distinction; Some of the Most Interesting Work on Reference Is in Its Infancy; Referring Adults; Finding Common Ground; Keysar and Egocentric Processing