Editorial

scalar implicatures

Anne Reboul (Author), Penka Stateva (Author)

Abstract

In 1975, Grice introduced the notion of implicature, arguing that it was more appropriate to account for a class of apparent lexical ambiguities through pragmatic processes than by multiplying lexical meanings (Modified Ockham's razor: Do not multiply meanings beyond necessity; Grice, 1975). For the past 20 years, experimental approaches have superseded purely theoretical ones, with mixed results. Paradigms using verification tasks on infelicitous sentences, with rate of pragmatic answers and reaction time as measures, have generally concluded in favor of the post-Gricean views (Bott and Noveck, 2004; Noveck and Reboul, 2008). However, some recent studies discuss additional factors affecting implicature processing and have introduced new paradigms which suggest a different conclusion (Katsos and Bishop, 2011; Breheny et al., 2013; Degen and Tanenhaus, 2015; Foppolo and Marelli, 2017; Bill et al.; Jasbi et al.; Sikos et al.). In addition, current research has shown that lexical scales may play a role in the process in keeping with neo-Gricean views. This Frontiers topic is a collection of 12 contributions in experimental pragmatics focusing on different aspects of child and adult processing of implicatures, factors affecting their rate, relevance of testing paradigms, scale diversity, cross-linguistic differences, and variation in triggers.

Keywords

scalar implicatures;experimental pragmatics;neo-Gricean pragmatics;post-Gricean pragmatics;grammatical theory of implicatures;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2019
Typology:	1.03 - Short Scientific Article
Organization:	UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC:	81'36
COBISS:	5432571
ISSN:	1664-1078
Views:	2708
Downloads:	92
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URN:	URN:SI:UNG
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	str. 1-3
Issue:	ǂVol. ǂ10
Chronology:	Jul. 2019
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01767
ID:	11195983