"Presupposition Accommodation and Contextual Amendment Arguments"

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Seong Eun Park
Keyword(s):  
Presupposition Accommodation

scholarly journals The main types of mental information processing: a systematic structural method

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Tsupikova ◽  
Alexander Tyutchenko ◽  
Larisa Katsyuba
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Qualitative Properties ◽  
Presupposition Accommodation

The article describes the main types of mental information processing in the context of a systematic structural method. The author analyses the semantic theories of information. The author reviews the mechanisms of information processing and its qualitative properties. The article describes the mechanism of textual presupposition accommodation.

The Processing Costs of Presupposition Accommodation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Domaneschi ◽  
Simona Di Paola
Keyword(s):  
Presupposition Accommodation

scholarly journals Fiction and importation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Stokke
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Truth In Fiction ◽  
Conversational Implicatures ◽  
Presupposition Accommodation ◽  
Ordinary Conversation ◽  
Fictional Truth

AbstractImportation in fictional discourse is the phenomenon by which audiences include information in the story over and above what is explicitly stated by the narrator. This paper argues that importation is distinct from generation, the phenomenon by which truth in fiction may outstrip what is made explicit, and draws a distinction between fictional truth and fictional records. The latter comprises the audience’s picture of what is true according to the narrator. The paper argues that importation into fictional records operates according to principles that also govern ordinary conversation. An account of fictional records as a species of common ground information is proposed. Two sources of importation are described in detail, presupposition accommodation and conversational implicatures. It is shown that presuppositions are both mandatorily imported and mandatorily generated. By contrast, conversational implicatures are neither mandatorily imported nor mandatorily generated. The paper distinguishes conversational implicatures from contextual inferences. Both rely on background assumptions, yet conversational implicatures moreover depend on assumptions concerning Gricean cooperation.

scholarly journals Pre-emptive interaction in language change and ontogeny: the case of [there is no NP]

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vittorio Tantucci ◽  
Matteo Di Cristofaro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Language Change ◽  
First Language ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Presupposition Accommodation ◽  
Dialogic Interaction ◽  
Gradient Approach

Abstract This study is centred on the pre-emptive dimension of interactional exchanges. Dialogues are not merely characterised by information transmission, they are also constantly informed by pre-emptive attempts to address potential reactions to what is being said. We argue that pre-emptive interaction intersects with intersubjectivity (i.a. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2003. From subjectification to intersubjectification. In R. Hickey (ed.), Motives for language change, 124–139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Schwenter, Scott A. & Richard Waltereit. 2010. Presupposition accommodation and language change. In K. Davidse & L. Vandelanotte (eds.), Subjectification, intersubjectification and grammaticalization, 75–102. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton; Tantucci, Vittorio. 2017a. From immediate to extended intersubjectification: A gradient approach to intersubjective awareness and semasiological change. Language and Cognition 9(1). 88–120; Tantucci, Vittorio. 2020. From co-actionality to extended intersubjectivity: Drawing on language change and ontogenetic development. Applied Linguistics 41(2). 185–214) and constitutes an important trigger of semantic-pragmatic reanalysis and constructional change. We provide a corpus-based study centred on the change of the [there is no NP] construction in Early Modern English dialogic interaction. During 16th century, the chunk is originally used in assertions, however it then progressively acquires a new function of pre-emptive refusal. Something similar is at stake throughout the child’s ontogeny. We provide corpus-based data from the CHILDES database of first language acquisition to show that children’s ability to use [there is no NP] to address potential reactions to what is being said occurs only around the fourth year of age, that is when a Theory of Mind (ToM) starts to become fully developed (i.a. Apperly, Ian. 2010. Mindreaders: The cognitive basis of theory of mind. New York: Psychology Press; Wellman, Henry M. 2014. Making minds: How theory of mind develops. Oxford: Oxford University Press). Pre-emptive interaction correlates diachronically and ontogentically with ToM and underpins a projected turn taking of a specific or generic interlocutor as a result of what is being currently said.

Conversational Disgust and Social Oppression

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
George Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
Conversational Context ◽  
Presupposition Accommodation

Abstract In recent years, philosophers have begun to uncover the role played by verbal conduct in generating oppressive social structures. I examine the oppressive illocutionary uses, and perlocutionary effects, of expressives: speech acts that are not truth-apt, merely expressing attitudes, such as desires, preferences, and emotions. Focusing on expressions of disgust in conversation, I argue for two claims: (1) that expressions of disgust can activate in the local, conversational context the oppressive power of the underlying structures of oppression; (2) that conversational expressions of disgust can, via the pragmatic process of presupposition accommodation, contribute to morally problematic cases of disgust contagion.

scholarly journals WHAT IS PRESUPPOSITION ACCOMMODATION, AGAIN?*

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai von Fintel
Keyword(s):  
Presupposition Accommodation

N400 and P600 modulation in presupposition accommodation: The effect of different trigger types

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 13-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Domaneschi ◽  
Paolo Canal ◽  
Viviana Masia ◽  
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri ◽  
Valentina Bambini
Keyword(s):  
Presupposition Accommodation

scholarly journals Towards an explanation of copula effects

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Gerhard Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Generalized Quantifier ◽  
Property Type ◽  
Presupposition Accommodation

This paper deals with a series of semantic contrasts between the copula "be" and the preposition "as", two functional elements that both head elementary predication structures. It will be argued that the meaning of "as" is a type lowering device shifting the meaning of its complement NP from generalized quantifier type to property type (where properties are conceived as relations between individuals and situations), while the copula "be" induces a type coercion from (partial) situations to (total) possible worlds. Paired with van der Sandt's 1992 theory of presupposition accommodation, these assumptions will account for the observed contrasts between "as" and "be".

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