The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

Edited by Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos

Abstract

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics. In the past twenty 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 thirty-one 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.

Keywords: semantics, pragmatics, experimental data, evidence, methods

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Mar 2019

ISBN:: 9780198791768

Published online:: May 2019

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.001.0001

Editors

Chris Cummins, editor
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 decisionmaking; 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, editor
Napoleon Katsos is a Reader in Experimental Pragmatics at the University of Cambridge. 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 a typical language acquisition by monolingual or bilingual children.

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Front Matter
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- The contributors
IntroductionChris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos
Language Comprehension, Inference, and AlternativesDimitrios Skordos and David Barner
Constraint-Based Pragmatic ProcessingJudith Degen and Michael K. Tanenhaus
Scalar ImplicaturesRichard Breheny
Event (De)compositionSherry Yong Chen and E. Matthew Husband
Presuppositions, Projection, and AccommodationFlorian Schwarz
Spatial TermsMyrto Grigoroglou and Anna Papafragou
CounterfactualsHeather Ferguson
DistributivityKristen Syrett
GenericityDimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga
Modified NumeralsRick Nouwen, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, and Yaron Mcnabb
NegationYe Tian and Richard Breheny
PluralityLyn Tieu and Jacopo Romoli
QuantificationAdrian Brasoveanu and Jakub Dotlačil
Quantifier SpreadingPatricia J. Brooks and Olga Parshina
Adjective Meaning and ScalesStephanie Solt
Ironic UtterancesNicola Spotorno and Ira Noveck
MetaphorNausicaa Pouscoulous and Giulio Dulcinati
MetonymyPetra B. Schumacher
VaguenessSam Alxatib and Uli Sauerland
Verbal UncertaintyMarie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, and Jean-François Bonnefon
Word SensesHugh Rabagliati and Mahesh Srinivasan
Antecedent-Contained DeletionKristen Syrett
Exhaustivity in It-CleftsEdgar Onea
FocusChristina S. Kim
Negative Polarity ItemsMing Xiang
PronounsHannah Rohde
Reference and InformativenessCatherine Davies and Jennifer E. Arnold
Prosody and MeaningJudith Tonhauser
PolitenessThomas Holtgraves
Theory of MindPaula Rubio-Fernández
Turn-TakingJ. P. De Ruiter
End Matter
- References
- Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics

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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics

Edited by Chris Cummins and Napoleon Katsos

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