Short introduction: Acquiring inferential abilities

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Beyond Words 1
4. Section I. General Concepts
5. Short introduction: General concepts 11
6. Communication in the narrower and broader sense 15
7. Pragmatics in Optimality Theory 33
8. Section II. Acquiring inferential abilities
9. Short introduction: Acquiring inferential abilities 61
10. Word learning by exclusion – pragmatics, logic and processing 67
11. Children’s knowledge of scales in the acquisition of almost 91
12. Relevance inferences in young children: 3-year-olds’ understand a speaker’s indirectly expressed social intention 109
13. Early pragmatics with words 121
14. Section III. Grammar, meaning, and enrichment
15. Short introduction: Grammar, meaning, and enrichment 147
16. Procedures and prosody: Weak encoding and weak communication 151
17. Pragmatic templates and free enrichment 183
18. Pragmatic enrichment in adjectival passives: the case of the post state reading 207
19. Pragmatic inferencing and expert knowledge 231
20. Section IV. Constraints, memes, and constructions
21. Short introduction: Constraints, memes, and constructions 249
22. Empirical and theoretical evidence for a model of quantifier production 253
23. Constructions as memes – Interactional function as cultural convention beyond the words 283
24. A pragmatic Pandora’s box: Regularities and defaults in pragmatics 307
25. Contributors to the volume 331
26. Index 335