Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes

Filippo Domaneschi is Lecturer and Researcher in Psychology of Language at the University of Genoa, Italy and he is director of the research project EXPRESS – Experimenting on presuppositions. He is author of various psycholinguistic papers in scientific journals, and he is author of Introduction to pragmatics (2014, tr. engl.), co-editor of What is said and what is not (2013) and editor of the special issue Presuppositions: philosophy, linguistics and psychology (2016).

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Experimental Pragmatics.- Chapter 2: Presuppositions.- Chapter 3: Mental States and Presuppositions. An Experiment.- Chapter 4: Processing Presupposition Triggers.- Chapter 5: Processing Conditional and Unconditional Presuppositions.- Chapter 6: The Cognitive Load Factor.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.