defaultist
nounEtymology From default + -ist.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Sciences One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
- 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.2010, Bart Geurts, Quantity Implicatures, page 87:
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- 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.2010, Arjen Zondervan, Scalar Implicatures Or Focus: An Experimental Approach, page 191:
- There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse: