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Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing

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Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing - Jaszczolt, Kasia M (Editor), and Allan, Keith (Editor)
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The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation of the literal/nonliteral distinction to the distinction between the automatic and conscious retrieval of information. The question of literal meaning is inherently interwoven with the question of lexical salience on one hand and default interpretations on the other. This volume addresses these interconnected issues, stressing ...

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Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing 2011, Walter de Gruyter, Basel/Berlin/Boston

ISBN-13: 9783110270587

Hardcover