Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing / / ed. by Keith Allan, Kasia M. Jaszczolt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Keith,; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann,; Giora, Rachel,; Haugh, Michael,; Jaszczolt, Kasia M.,; Kapogianni, Eleni,; Kecskes, Istvan,; Peleg, Orna,; Pitts, Alyson,
• HerausgeberIn: Allan, Keith,; Jaszczolt, Kasia M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Default meanings, salient meanings, and automatic processing --; Chapter 3. Salient meanings: The whens and wheres --; Chapter 4. Graded salience effects on irony production and interpretation --; Chapter 5. Salience in language production --; Chapter 6. On salience and enrichment in expressions of negation --; Chapter 7. Understanding acronyms: The time course of accesibility --; Chapter 8. Graded salience: Probabilistic meanings in the lexicon --; Chapter 9. Practices and defaults in interpreting disjunction --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110270679; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110261189; 9783110261233; 9783110261226; 9783110261240
• ISSN: 1864-6409
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110270679
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Keith Allan, Kasia M. Jaszczolt.

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 lexical salience on one hand and default interpretations on the other. This volume addresses these interconnected issues, stressing their mutual interdependence. It contributes new, ground-breaking insights into the questions of literalness, semantics-pragmatics interface, automatic (default) retrieval and contextual pragmatic enrichment, modelling of discourse processing, lexical pragmatics, and other related issues.