Dynamic Pragmatic View of Negation Processing

• Autores: Ye Tian, Richard Breheny
• Localización: Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives / coord. por Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-17463-1, págs. 21-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many psycholinguistic studies have found that processing negativesentences is difficult, and often involves the representation of the positive argument. Current rejection accounts suggest that processing the positive argument is the mandatory first step of negation processing, and the difficulty of negation comes from the extra step of embedding. We argue for a dynamic pragmatic view,suggesting that even when processing a sentence without context, comprehenders retrieve contextual information such as its Question Under Discussion (QUD), using linguistic cues. Without supporting context, negation acts as a cue for retrieving and accommodating the most prominent QUD, where the truth of the positive counterpart is at issue. QUD accommodation happens incrementally andautomatically, which triggers the representation of the positive argument and contributes to the extra processing cost related to negation.