Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes
Understanding the Information Taken for Granted
Authors: Domaneschi, Filippo
Free Preview- Demonstrates that experimental research can suggest new theoretical models for presupposition
- Posits that presupposition itself is a real, specific phenomenon, not to be reduced to other kinds of implicit meaning
- Investigates the cognitive processes involved in processing presuppositions
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Experimental Pragmatics
Pages 1-43
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Presuppositions
Pages 45-88
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Mental States and Presuppositions. An Experimental Approach
Pages 89-103
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Processing Presupposition Triggers
Pages 105-124
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Processing Conditional and Unconditional Presuppositions
Pages 125-142
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes
- Book Subtitle
- Understanding the Information Taken for Granted
- Authors
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- Filippo Domaneschi
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-57942-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-57942-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-57941-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 164
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations
- Topics
