Presumptive Meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature

By Stephen C. Levinson. 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, methodology): “Throughout many areas of cognition, such error-driven learning has been widely explored in a range of computational frameworks (e.g., from connectionist networks, to reinforcement learning, to support vector machines) and has considerable behavioral (e.g., Kamin 1969) and neurobiological support…”
Semantics and the electrophysiology of meaning: Tense, aspect, event structure (2004, background): “Still, non-monotonicity appears necessary in light of both linguistic considerations [122, 124, 212] and experimental data [196].”
The Comprehension of Counterfactual Conditionals: Evidence From Eye-Tracking in the Visual World Paradigm (2019, background): “…falsity of a counterfactual’s antecedent and consequent is a “global” sentential inference accessed only at the end of the sentence (e.g., Sperber and Wilson, 1995), or a “local” subsentential inference accessed as soon as some trigger or cue is encountered (e.g., Levinson, 2000; see Reboul, 2004).”
The Pragmatics of Polarity (2004, background): “Whether or not a more constrained theory of scalar reasoning is feasible (cf. Levinson 2000), it is clear that the knowledge structures which underlie scalar models are remarkably diverse.”
Linguistic Meaning, Communicated Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics (2002, background): “…the referents of indexicals which is distinct from a pragmatics system ( for implicature generation ) ; the post - Gricean pragmatist , Stephen Levinson ( 2000 ) , who distinguishes a system of default rules for generating what he calls ' generalised ' conversational implicature , which can…”
When Production Precedes Comprehension: An Optimization Approach to the Acquisition of Pronouns (2006, background): “…such as Jakubowicz (1984, 174), Solan (1987, 201), Reinhart (1983), and Levinson (1987) stipulated Principle A and derived Principle B. Alternatively, work by Levinson (2000), Huang (1994), and others has stipulated Principle B and derived Principle A as an effect of neo-Gricean reasoning.”
Contrastive Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation as Optimization (2022, background): “Several of these formalisms (Horn, 1984; Levinson, 2000) describe”
How marginal are phrasal compounds? Generalized insertion, expressivity, and I/Q-interaction (2007, background): “Hence someone who uses a phrasal compound observes the Q-principle (Levinson 2000, p. 76): (24) Q-principle Speaker’s maxim: Do not provide a statement that is informationally weaker than your knowledge of the world allows, unless providing an informationally stronger statement would contravene the ”