Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
Under the category of Relation I place a single maxim, namely, ‘‘Be relevant.’’ Though the maxim itself is terse, its formulatio ...
2.Quality.I expect your contributions to be genuine and not spurious. If I need sugar as an ingredient in the cake you are assis ...
But while some such quasi-contractual basis as this may apply to some cases, there are too many types of exchange, like quarreli ...
example, to B’s remark that C has not yet been to prison. In a suitable setting A might reason as follows: ‘‘(1 )B has apparentl ...
supermaxim as infringed in this example. The next example is perhaps a little less clear in this respect: A: Smith doesn’t seem ...
course, informative at the level of what is implicated, and the hearer’s identifi- cation of their informative content at this l ...
well be that she is given to deceiving her husband, or possibly that she is the sort of person who would not stop short of such ...
was concerned. Whether the straightforward interpretant is also being con- veyed seems to depend on whether such a supposition w ...
Anyone who uses a sentence of the formX is meeting a woman this evening would normally implicate that the person to be met was s ...
generalized conversational implicature can be canceled in a particular case. It may be explicitly canceled, by the addition of a ...
Chapter 33 Idiomaticity and Human Cognition Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. Figurative language has finally become a respectable area of st ...
conventional interpretations are not functions of the meanings of their individ- ual parts (Chafe 1970; Chomsky 1965, 1980; Fras ...
provides significant insights into the fundamental figurative character of hu- man cognition. The Analyzability of Idioms There ...
an idiom means through an analysis of the meanings of its individual words, but we can do more than throw our hands up and simpl ...
be defined in some context-free manner. Idiom researchers face the challenge of understanding the exact contribution of lexical ...
The results of these different psycholinguistic studies demonstrate that the syntactic versatility, lexical flexibility, and sem ...
The Cognitive Motivation for Idiomatic Meaning One interesting characteristic of idiomaticity is that most languages have many i ...
schemes of thought. For this reason, the traditional view simply cannot explain why the figurative meanings of so many idioms ma ...
spilled, are the beans in a nice, neat pile? Where are the beans supposed to be? After the beans are spilled, are they easy to r ...
head). The motivation for these particular folk conceptions comes from two conceptual metaphors—ANGER IS PRESSURIZED HEAT and TH ...
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