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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