Experimental Pragmatics

Introduction; I.Noveck & D.Sperber PART I: PIONEERING APPROACHES Changing Ideas about Reference; H.H.Clark & A.Bangerter On the Automaticity of Pragmatic Processes: A Modular Proposal; S.Glucksberg Psycholinguistic Experiments and Linguistic Pragmatics; R.W.Gibbs Jr. Reasoning, Judgment and Pragmatics; G.Politzer Exploring Quantifiers: Pragmatics Meets the Psychology of Comprehension; A.J.Sanford & L.Moxey PART II: CURRENT ISSUES IN EXPERIMENTAL PRAGMATICS Testing the Cognitive and Communicative Principles of Relevance; J-B.Van der Henst & D.Sperber Contextual Strength: The Whens and Hows of Context Effects; O.Peleg, R.Giora & O.Fein Electrophysiology and Pragmatic Language Comprehension; S.Coulson Speech Acts in Children: The Example of Promises; J.Bernicot& V.Laval Reasoning and Pragmatics: The Case of Even If ; S.J.Handley & A.Feeney PART III: THE CASE OF SCALAR IMPLICATURES Implicature, Relevance, and Default Pragmatic Inference; A.L.Bezuidenhout & R.K.Morris Semantic and Pragmatic Competence in Children's and Adults' Comprehension of 'or'; G.Chierchia, M.T.Guasti, A.Gualmini, L.Meroni , S.Crain & F.Foppolo Pragmatic Inferences Related to Logical Terms; I.A.Noveck Conversational Implicatures: Nonce or Generalized?; A.Reboul Index