defaultist
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editdefaultist (not comparable)
- Of or relating to defaultism.
Noun
editdefaultist (plural defaultists)
- (pragmatics) One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
- Antonym: contextualist
- 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".
- 2010, Bart Geurts, Quantity Implicatures, page 87:
- Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.
- 2010, Arjen Zondervan, Scalar Implicatures Or Focus: An Experimental Approach, page 191:
- 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.
- 2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse:
- There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.