Defaultist

Quick meaning: Defaultist is an adjective meaning Of or relating to defaultism.

Meaning

Of or relating to defaultism.

More Meanings

1. (pragmatics) One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.

Example Sentences

Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.

There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.

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".

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.

Word Forms

• defaultists

Antonyms for defaultist

Common opposites include contextualist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include essentialist, traditionalistic, pluralist, distributist, neutralist, populist.

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