Meaning of defaultist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.

Examples

“A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish⟳" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish⟳".”

“Hence, there can be little doubt⟳ that Levinson is a strong defaultist.”

“For Experiment⟳ 8, the defaultists could make⟳ a similar argument about the absence of an SI-cancellation effect that I made about the absence of an SI-calculation effect.”

“There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.”

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