This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.
This book contains an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics over the past 20 years. Leading authorities in the study of the semantics–pragmatics interface have contributed chapters from a range of perspectives; they address the crucial components of scalar implicatures, including the exhaustivity operator, alternatives and contextual optionality. The book offers an up-to-date presentation of the phenomenon of scalar implicatures in a way that will help readers to orient themselves within the vast literature on the topic. It will be of great interest to students and researchers of semantics, cognitive science, psychology and philosophy of language.
|
|
|
vi | |
| Acknowledgments |
|
vii | |
| Notes on Contributors |
|
viii | |
|
1 Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate |
|
|
1 | (12) |
|
|
|
2 The Roots of (Scalar) Implicature |
|
|
13 | (27) |
|
|
|
3 On the Roles of Markedness and Contradiction in the Use of Alternatives |
|
|
40 | (32) |
|
|
|
4 Intermediate Scalar Implicatures |
|
|
72 | (27) |
|
|
|
5 An Account for the Homogeneity Effect Triggered by Plural Definites and Conjunction Based on Double Strengthening |
|
|
99 | (47) |
|
|
|
6 Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge: Comments on Magri (2011) |
|
|
146 | (24) |
|
|
|
7 Pragmatic Back-and-Forth Reasoning |
|
|
170 | (31) |
|
|
|
|
|
8 Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures Share the Same Processing Signature |
|
|
201 | (40) |
|
|
|
|
| Index |
|
241 | |
Emmanuel Chemla, École Normale Supérieure, France Alexandre Cremers, École Normale Supérieure, France Michael Franke, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Laurence Horn, Yale University, USA Gerhard Jäger Tübingen University, Germany Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University, Israel Giorgio Magri, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Uli Sauerland, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Germany Benjamin Spector, Institut Jean Nicod, France
