The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
Published on 19. March 2019
Book
Hardback
688 pages
978-0-19-879176-8 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past 20 years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters in this volume offer an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning 31 different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. The volume's forward-looking approach also seeks to actively identify questions and methods that could be fruitfully combined in future experimental research.
Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Written in a clear and accessible style, this handbook will appeal to students and scholars from advanced undergraduate level upwards in a range of fields, including semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Reviews / Votes
I have no doubt that this original much needed volume will appeal not only to scholars who are relatively new to the new field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, but also to young researchers willing to pursue new research, and to more experienced scholars interested in interdisciplinary and empirical linguistics. * Nicolas Ruytenbeek, Ghent University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1347 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-879176-8 (9780198791768)
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Chris Cummins | Napoleon Katsos
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
E-Book
03/2019
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€92.49
Available for download
Chris Cummins | Napoleon Katsos
The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
E-Book
03/2019
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€92.49
Available for download
Persons
Chris Cummins is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked at Bielefeld University, having received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the pragmatic interpretation of quantity expressions, and how this bears upon reasoning and decision-making; he has also published on the topics of presupposition, speech acts and metaphor. He is the author of Constraints on Numerical Expressions (OUP 2015).
Napoleon Katsos is a Reader in Experimental Pragmatics at the University of Cambridge. He was among the first generation of PhD researchers to be trained in experimental pragmatics and took part in related networks, such as Euro-XPrag, XPrag-UK, and XPrag-De. He is interested in how we learn, process, and use the meaning of words and sentences, with emphasis on quantification and implicature. He draws relevant evidence from linguistic theory and experimental psychology, including sentence processing and typical or atypical language acquisition by monolingual or bilingual children.
Napoleon Katsos is a Reader in Experimental Pragmatics at the University of Cambridge. He was among the first generation of PhD researchers to be trained in experimental pragmatics and took part in related networks, such as Euro-XPrag, XPrag-UK, and XPrag-De. He is interested in how we learn, process, and use the meaning of words and sentences, with emphasis on quantification and implicature. He draws relevant evidence from linguistic theory and experimental psychology, including sentence processing and typical or atypical language acquisition by monolingual or bilingual children.
Editor
Lecturer in Linguistics and English LanguageLecturer in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
Reader in Experimental Pragmatics, Dept of Theoretical and Applied LinguisticsReader in Experimental Pragmatics, Dept of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
Content
1: Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos: Introduction
2: Dimitrios Skordos and David Barner: Language comprehension, inference, and alternatives
3: Judith Degen and Michael K. Tanenhaus: Constraint-based pragmatic processing
4: Richard Breheny: Scalar implicatures
5: Sherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband: Event (de)composition
6: Florian Schwarz: Presuppositions, projection, and accommodation
7: Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou: Spatial terms
8: Heather Ferguson: Counterfactuals
9: Kristen Syrett: Distributivity
10: Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Genericity
11: Rick Nouwen, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, and Yaron McNabb: Modified numerals
12: Ye Tian and Richard Breheny: Negation
13: Lyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli: Plurality
14: Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlacil: Quantification
15: Patricia J. Brooks and Olga Parshina: Quantifier spreading
16: Stephanie Solt: Adjective meaning and scales
17: Nicola Spotorno and Ira Noveck: Ironic utterances
18: Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Giulio Dulcinati: Metaphor
19: Petra B. Schumacher: Metonymy
20: Sam Alxatib and Uli Sauerland: Vagueness
21: Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, and Jean-Francois Bonnefon: Verbal uncertainty
22: Hugh Rabagliati and Mahesh Srinivasan: Word senses
23: Kristen Syrett: Antecedent-contained deletion
24: Edgar Onea: Exhaustivity in it-clefts
25: Christina S. Kim: Focus
26: Ming Xiang: Negative Polarity Items
27: Hannah Rohde: Pronouns
28: Catherine Davies and Jennifer E. Arnold: Reference and informativeness
29: Judith Tonhauser: Prosody and meaning
30: Thomas Holtgraves: Politeness
31: Paula Rubio Fernandez: Theory of Mind
32: J. P. de Ruiter: Turn-taking
2: Dimitrios Skordos and David Barner: Language comprehension, inference, and alternatives
3: Judith Degen and Michael K. Tanenhaus: Constraint-based pragmatic processing
4: Richard Breheny: Scalar implicatures
5: Sherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband: Event (de)composition
6: Florian Schwarz: Presuppositions, projection, and accommodation
7: Myrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou: Spatial terms
8: Heather Ferguson: Counterfactuals
9: Kristen Syrett: Distributivity
10: Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga: Genericity
11: Rick Nouwen, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, and Yaron McNabb: Modified numerals
12: Ye Tian and Richard Breheny: Negation
13: Lyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli: Plurality
14: Adrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlacil: Quantification
15: Patricia J. Brooks and Olga Parshina: Quantifier spreading
16: Stephanie Solt: Adjective meaning and scales
17: Nicola Spotorno and Ira Noveck: Ironic utterances
18: Nausicaa Pouscoulous and Giulio Dulcinati: Metaphor
19: Petra B. Schumacher: Metonymy
20: Sam Alxatib and Uli Sauerland: Vagueness
21: Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, and Jean-Francois Bonnefon: Verbal uncertainty
22: Hugh Rabagliati and Mahesh Srinivasan: Word senses
23: Kristen Syrett: Antecedent-contained deletion
24: Edgar Onea: Exhaustivity in it-clefts
25: Christina S. Kim: Focus
26: Ming Xiang: Negative Polarity Items
27: Hannah Rohde: Pronouns
28: Catherine Davies and Jennifer E. Arnold: Reference and informativeness
29: Judith Tonhauser: Prosody and meaning
30: Thomas Holtgraves: Politeness
31: Paula Rubio Fernandez: Theory of Mind
32: J. P. de Ruiter: Turn-taking