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Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Salvatore Pistoia Reda

    1. Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali Politiche e Cognitive, Università di Siena 1240, Italy
      Zentrum für Allegmeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Some Remarks on the Scalar Implicatures Debate

    • Salvatore Pistoia Reda
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Roots of (Scalar) Implicature

    • Laurence R. Horn
    Pages 13-39

  4. On the Roles of Markedness and Contradiction in the Use of Alternatives

    • Roni Katzir
    Pages 40-71

  5. Intermediate Scalar Implicatures

    • Uli Sauerland
    Pages 72-98

  6. An Account for the Homogeneity Effect Triggered by Plural Definites and Conjunction Based on Double Strengthening

    • Giorgio Magri
    Pages 99-145

  7. Scalar Implicatures, Blindness and Common Knowledge: Comments on Magri (2011)

    • Benjamin Spector
    Pages 146-169

  8. Pragmatic Back-and-Forth Reasoning

    • Michael Franke, Gerhard Jäger
    Pages 170-200

  9. Direct and Indirect Scalar Implicatures Share the Same Processing Signature

    • Alexandre Cremers, Emmanuel Chemla
    Pages 201-227

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 228-242
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This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali Politiche e Cognitive, Università di Siena 1240, Italy

    Salvatore Pistoia Reda

  • Zentrum für Allegmeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

    Salvatore Pistoia Reda

About the editor

Emmanuel Chemla, École Normale Supérieure, France Alexandre Cremers, École Normale Supérieure, France Michael Franke, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Laurence Horn, Yale University, USA Gerhard Jäger Tübingen University, Germany Roni Katzir, Tel Aviv University, Israel Giorgio Magri, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Uli Sauerland, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Germany Benjamin Spector, Institut Jean Nicod, France

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