Alison Hall
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alison Hall is involved.
Articles
2026 Cognitive schemas, pragmatic enrichment and the contextualism versus minimalism debate Patterns of Context: Modelling cultural and contextual influence in utterance interpretation, Diedrichsen, Elke and Frank Liedtke (eds.), pp. 170–189 | Chapter
Cognitive schemas, scripts, or frames — chunks of information that are frequently used and are therefore highly accessible and easily retrieved — are often appealed to by theories of utterance comprehension to explain conventional patterns of inferences. In this chapter I show that schemas are… read more
2009 Subsentential utterances, ellipsis, and pragmatic enrichment Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 222–250 | Article
It is argued that genuinely subsentential phrases, such as a discourse-initial utterance of “From France” to indicate the provenance of an item, provide evidence for the reality of the pragmatic process of free enrichment. I consider recent attempts to treat such discourse-initial fragments as… read more