Description: The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Experimental Perspectives Author(s): Elena Castroviejo, Louise McNally, Galit Weidman Sassoon Format: Hardback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319777900, 978-3319777900 Synopsis This volume is the first to focus specifically on experimental studies of the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness. It presents support for and challenges to current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data, highlighting the ways semantic and pragmatic theory can benefit from experimental methodologies. The papers in the volume contribute to an explicit and detailed account of the use, representation, and online processing of gradable and vague expressions using various kinds of controlled speaker judgment tasks, eye tracking, and ERP. The aim is to strengthen the foundations of experimental semantics and promote interaction between linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, and philosophers who are interested in the semantics of natural language. Using data representing different languages and a variety of nominal and adjectival constructions, including degree modification and comparatives, the contributions address scale-based classifications of gradable predicates, such as the absolute vs. relative distinction; the nature of the standards for applicability of gradable expressions and the ways in which standards are determined; the nature of dimensions and multidimensionality in the meaning of scalar expressions; and the role of embodiment, subjectivity, and sociolinguistic considerations in the use and understanding of gradable expressions.
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Book Title: The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure
Number of Pages: 293 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Semantics of Gradability, Vagueness, and Scale Structure: Experimental Perspectives
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 4472 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Galit Weidman Sassoon, Elena Castroviejo, Louise Mcnally
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology, Data Analysis
Series: Language, Cognition, and Mind
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Hardcover
