Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches on Implicatures and Presuppositions

Salvatore Pistoia-Reda is a Researcher at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Germany, and a Research Fellow at Università di Siena, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive (DISPOC), Italy. He is the author of various publications in the Philosophy of Language, particularly in Semantics and Pragmatics. He holds or has held fellowships with several international institutions, including the Fulbright and the Humboldt foundations. Filippo Domaneschi is Lecturer and Researcher in the Psychology of Language at the University of Genoa, Italy, and is Director of the research project EXPRESS - Experimenting on Presuppositions. He is author of various psycholinguistic papers in scientific journals, and of Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes (2016), Introduction to Pragmatics (2014), and is co-editor of What is Said and What is Not (2013,) and editor of the special issue, Presuppositions: Philosophy, Linguistics and P sychology (2016).

- Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Meaning and Communication (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Filippo Domaneschi).- Blindness, Short-sightedness, and Hirschberg's contextually ordered alternatives: a reply to Schlenker (2012) (Giorgio Magri).- Remarks on oddness and conjunction (Salvatore Pistoia-Reda and Jacopo Romoli).- A fine-grained global analysis of implicatures (Robert van Rooij).- Probability Judgments of Gappy Sentences (Alexandre Cremers, Manuel Kriz, Emmanuel Chemla).- Presuppositions are challenging not only for preschoolers, but also for school-aged children (Francesca Foppolo and Francesca Panzeri).- The connection between focus and implicatures: Investigating alternative activation under working memory load (Nicole Gotzner and Katharina Spalek).- Presuppositional Anaphora Is The Sobel Truth (Daniel Dohrn).