What is a Context?

Name: What is a Context? | Linguistic approaches and challenges
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Linguistic approaches and challenges

Rita Finkbeiner Jörg Meibauer Petra B. Schumacher(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 23. Oktober 2012

VII, 253 Seiten

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What is a Context?
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
References
Part I. Linguistic perspectives on context
What is a context?
1. Introduction
2. Some classical approaches to the notion of context
3. Context in the minimalism-contextualism debate
4. Context in experimental pragmatics (psycholinguistics)
5. Conclusions
References
Context in neurolinguistics
1. Introduction
2. Context in time: Electrophysiological findings
2.1 The predictive potential of context: N400 findings
2.2 Discourse representational consequences of context: Late Positivity findings
3. Context in the language architecture
References
Theorising context
1. Introduction
2. Context in pragmatics
3. Context in clinical pragmatics
4. Clinical conceptions of context
5. Theoretical reflections on context
References
Context
1. Objectives: In search for "context for truth conditions"
2. Context: Its semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology
3. Context in contextualism vis-à-vis contextual parameters
4. Context selection: Whose meaning?
5. Content and context in default semantics
6. Dénouement
References
Contexts in interaction
1. Introduction
2. Context and contexts: A mixed bag
2.1 Context as participant construct
2.2 Context as analyst construct
3. Conceptualizing context: A relational frame of reference
References
What's non-linguistic visual context?
1. Introduction
2. Visual context effects: When language is about visual context
2.1 Beyond word-object reference: Clipart and real-world action events
2.2 Recent visual contexts: Clipart objects and action events in working memory
2.3 The speaker as visual context: Gaze and gestures
3. Summary
4. Visual context effects: Beyond simple associations and towards abstract language comprehension
4.1 Beyond reference and simple associations: evidence from response times
4.2 Visual context and abstract language processing: Evidence from eye tracking
5. Conclusions
References
Part II. Case studies on context
Emergent contexts
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical assumptions
2.1 What is a context?
2.2 Utterance meaning
2.3 Co-textual features
2.4 Figurative Language Theory
2.5 Emergent meaning
2.6 A new approach
3. Experimental study
3.1 Pretest on familiarity
3.2 Preparation of items
3.3 Procedure
3.4 Experimental hypotheses
3.5 Results
3.6 Discussion
4. Summary
References
Appendix: Context Pairs
The role of context in interpreting implicit meaning aspects
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual frames and context
3. Theoretical approaches to IMAs
4. Empirical data concerning IMAs
5. Context and the interpretation of implicit meaning aspects
5.1 The role of frames in discourse interpretation
5.2 The role of frames in the interpretation of IMAs
6. Conclusion
References
Contextually enriched argument linking
1. Introduction
2. Contextually enriched argument linking
3. Semantic composition with referent systems
3.1 The basic idea
3.2 Semantic composition and construal
3.3 Semantic composition via referent systems
4. Contextual enrichment via abduction
5. Conclusion
References
A Referent systems
Modelling context within a constraint-based account of quantifier usage
1. Introduction
2. Context-referring and context-independent constraints
3. Constraints proposed to model context
3.1. Comparative quantifier implicatures and priming effects
3.2 Use of comparative quantifiers with non-round numerals
3.3 Non-isomorphic readings of quantifiers
4. Alternative context-referring constraints
4.1 Question under discussion
4.2 Speaker's communicative intention
4.3 Hearer's knowledge state
5. Constraints and a definition of "relevant context"
5.1 Constraint violations and irrelevant contextual information
5.2 Applicability to other formalisms
5.3 Interim summary
6. Context furnished by the hearer
7. Discussion and conclusions
References
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