TY - BOOK AU - Chris Cummins AU - Napoleon Katsos TI - The Oxford handbook of experimental semantics and pragmatics SN - 9780198791768 U1 - GR 401.43 Ox22 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Pragmatics KW - Semantics N2 - Exploring the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics, this volume offers an up-to-date account of research in the field spanning thirty-one different topics, including scalar implicatures, presuppositions, counterfactuals, quantification, metaphor, prosody, and politeness, as well as exploring how and why a particular experimental method is suitable for addressing a given theoretical debate. In the past twenty years, experimental data has become a major source of evidence for building theories of language meaning and use, encompassing a wide range of topics and methods ER -