The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure
Experimental Perspectives
Herausgeber: Castroviejo, Elena, McNally, Louise, Weidman Sassoon, Galit (Eds.)
Vorschau- Includes pioneering studies of the online processing of various aspects of adjectival semantics
- Provides new quantitative evidence concerning hypotheses from formal semantic theories
- Promotes the interaction between researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and philosophy on the semantics of natural language
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This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness. It presents support for and challenges to current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data, highlighting the ways semantic and pragmatic theory can benefit from experimental methodologies. The papers in the volume contribute to an explicit and detailed account of the use, representation, and online processing of gradable and vague expressions using various kinds of controlled speaker judgment tasks, eye tracking, and ERP. The aim is to strengthen the foundations of experimental semantics and promote interaction between linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, and philosophers who are interested in the semantics of natural language. Using data representing different languages and a variety of nominal and adjectival constructions, including degree modification and comparatives, the contributions address scale-based classifications of gradable predicates, such as the absolute vs. relative distinction; the nature of the standards for applicability of gradable expressions and the ways in which standards are determined; the nature of dimensions and multidimensionality in the meaning of scalar expressions; and the role of embodiment, subjectivity, and sociolinguistic considerations in the use and understanding of gradable expressions.
- Inhaltsverzeichnis (11 Kapitel)
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Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: From the Armchair to the Lab
Seiten 1-24
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Are Gaps Preferred to Gluts? A Closer Look at Borderline Contradictions
Seiten 25-58
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Multidimensionality, Subjectivity and Scales: Experimental Evidence
Seiten 59-91
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Online Processing of “Real” and “Fake”: The Cost of Being Too Strong
Seiten 93-111
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Gradable Nouns as Concepts Without Prototypes
Seiten 113-147
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (11 Kapitel)
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- Buchtitel
- The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure
- Buchuntertitel
- Experimental Perspectives
- Herausgeber
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- Elena Castroviejo
- Louise McNally
- Galit Weidman Sassoon
- Titel der Buchreihe
- Language, Cognition, and Mind
- Buchreihen Band
- 4
- Copyright
- 2018
- Verlag
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Inhaber
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-77791-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-77791-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-77790-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08541-4
- Buchreihen ISSN
- 2364-4109
- Auflage
- 1
- Seitenzahl
- VI, 293
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