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Publication details [#55562]

Allan, Keith and Kasia M. Jaszczolt, eds. 2011. Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing. (Mouton Series in Pragmatics 12). De Gruyter. vii+231 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | information processing | literal meaning | pragmatics | utterance, processing of

Annotation

This book discusses controversies concerning conscious versus automatic contextual information processing and the difference between literal and nonliteral meaning and throws new light on the interrelationship between these two distinctions.