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Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics

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العنوان: Scalar Diversity, Negative Strengthening, and Adjectival Semantics
المؤلفون: Gotzner, Nicole, Solt, Stephanie, Benz, Anton
المصدر: Frontiers in Psychology ; 9
بيانات النشر: CHE
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
مصطلحات موضوعية: Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft, Literature, rhetoric and criticism, scalar implicature, scalar diversity, scale structure, gradable adjectives, negative strengthening, negation, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Science of Literature, Linguistics
الوصف: Previous research has demonstrated great variability in the rates of scalar inferences across different triggers (Doran et al., 2009; van Tiel et al., 2016). In the current study, we show that variation is more systematic than previously thought. In particular, we present experimental evidence suggesting that endorsements of scalar implicatures (i) are anti-correlated with the degree of negative strengthening of the stronger scale-mate (e.g., whether John is not stunning is interpreted as conveying that John is rather ugly) and (ii) are affected by the scale structure and the underlying scalar semantics of gradable adjectives (in particular boundedness, polarity, and adjectival extremeness). Overall, our research suggests that scale structure should be taken into account in theories of implicature.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: unknown
تدمد: 1664-1078
Relation: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/86024; http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-86024-2; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01659
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01659
الاتاحة: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/86024
http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-86024-2
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01659
Rights: Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 ; Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.F2643FCA
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
تدمد:16641078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01659