Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing
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Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Keith Allan
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Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing
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De Gruyter Mouton
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9783110270679
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Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]ISSN
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1
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CHF 159.70
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Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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English
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238
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< >The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation of the literal/nonliteral distinction to the distinction between the automatic and conscious retrieval of information. The question of literal meaning is inherently interwoven with the question of salience and defaults. This volume addresses these interconnected issues, stressing their mutual interdependence
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Kasia M. Jaszczolt
, &nbs ;University of Cambridge,
UK, and
Keith Allan
, Monash University, Australia.
Contributors
7
Chapter 1. Introduction
9
Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing
19
Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres
43
Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation
61
Chapter 5. Salience in language production
89
Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation
111
Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accessibility
159
Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon
173
Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction
197
Index
235
