Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions, 2015 Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics Series, Vol. 45

This volume brings together some of the most recent developments in the field of experimental pragmatics, specifically empirical approaches to theoretical issues in presupposition theory. It includes studies of the online processing of presupposed content; investigations of the interpretive properties of presuppositions in various linguistic contexts; comparative perspectives relative to other aspects of meaning, such as asserted content and implicatures; cross-linguistic comparisons of presupposition triggers; and perspectives from language acquisition. Taken together, these novel contributions provide a snapshot of state-of-the art developments in this area and will serve as a point of reference for numerous emerging avenues of future work. It makes for an ideal set of readings for advanced university courses on experimental studies of meaning and is a must-read for anyone interested in experimental research on meaning in natural language.

First full volume on work in the rapidly emerging sub-field of experimental work on presuppositions State-of-the-Art snapshot of latest work on presuppositions, and a point of reference for further developments in this area of research Reports work that takes the recent shift towards experimental methods in pragmatics to a new set of issues Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras