
Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes
Understanding the Information Taken for Granted
Filippo Domaneschi(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 30. July 2016
Book
Hardback
XV, 164 pages
978-1-137-57941-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language comprehension are complex and demanding cognitive processes. The author demonstrates that these processes exist not only at the explicit level of an utterance but also at a deeper level of computing, where the background information taken for granted as already known and shared between interlocutors is processed. The author shows that experimental research can suggest new theoretical models for presupposition, thus this book will be of interest to researchers and students of psycholinguistics, the philosophy of language and experimental pragmatics.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen
XV, 164 p. 10 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
353 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-57941-6 (9781137579416)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-57942-3
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Understanding the Information Taken for Granted
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Understanding the Information Taken for Granted
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Person
Filippo Domaneschi is Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology of Language at the University of Genoa, Italy and he is director of the research project
EXPRESS - Experimenting on presuppositions
. He is author of various psycholinguistic papers in scientific journals, and he is author of
Introduction to pragmatics
(2014, tr. engl.), co-editor of
What is said and what is not
(2013) and editor of the special issue
Presuppositions: philosophy, linguistics and psychology
(2016).
Content
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Experimental Pragmatics.- Chapter 2: Presuppositions.- Chapter 3: Mental States and Presuppositions. An Experiment.- Chapter 4: Processing Presupposition Triggers.- Chapter 5: Processing Conditional and Unconditional Presuppositions.- Chapter 6: The Cognitive Load Factor.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.