Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Much of the work in experimental pragmatics is devoted to testing empirical hypotheses that arise within the study of linguistic and philosophical pragmatics.
Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston
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Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor [PDF]
Scientific DataResearch on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of linguistic and cognitive processes. At the same time, the demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials
Maddalena Bressler +11 more
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Development and Validation of a Rapid Tool to Measure Pragmatic Abilities: The Brief Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS Brief) [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesPragmatics is key to communicating effectively, and its assessment in vulnerable populations is of paramount importance. Although tools exist for this purpose, they are often effortful and time-consuming, with complex scoring procedures, which hampers ...
Luca Bischetti +15 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 A number of studies have demonstrated pragmatic language difficulties in people with Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders. However, research about how people with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders understand scalar ...
Walter Schaeken +4 more
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Negation in context: evidence from the visual world paradigm [PDF]
, 2016 Literature assumes that negation is more difficult to understand than affirmation, but this might depend on the pragmatic context. The goal of this paper is to show that pragmatic knowledge modulates the unfolding processing of negation due to the ...
Moxey, Linda +3 more
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Children’s and Adults’ Sensitivity to Gricean Maxims and to the Maximize Presupposition Principle
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Up to age 5, children are known to experience difficulties in the derivation of implicitly conveyed content, sticking to literally true, even if underinformative, interpretation of sentences.
Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo
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, 2019 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann, Dirk
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Why Pragmatics and Theory of Mind Do Not (Completely) Overlap
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Aim of the paper is to discuss the extent to which pragmatics, i.e., the ability to use language and other expressive means to convey meaning in a specific interactional context, overlaps with Theory of Mind (ToM), i.e., the ability to ascribe mental ...
Francesca M. Bosco +4 more
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The Role of Literal Features During Processing of Novel Verbal Metaphors
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 When a word is used metaphorically (for example “walrus” in the sentence “The president is a walrus”), some features of that word's meaning (“very fat,” “slow-moving”) are carried across to the metaphoric interpretation while other features (“has large ...
Camilo R. Ronderos +4 more
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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