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Differentiating among pragmatic uses of words through timed sensicality judgments: Metaphor, metonymy and approximation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Pragmatic and cognitive accounts of figurative language posit a difference between metaphor and metonymy in terms of underlying conceptual operations. Recently, other pragmatic uses of words have been accounted for in the Relevance Theory framework, such
Valentina eBambini, Marta eGhio, Andrea eMoro, Petra B. eSchumacher   +3 more
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Cognitive mechanisms in simile and metaphor comprehension

Language and Cognition
This study investigates whether metaphors and similes are processed the same way or not. Comparison accounts of metaphor claim that metaphors and similes use the same cognitive mechanisms because metaphors are implicit similes, while Categorization ...
Emma Krane Mathisen, Nicholas Allott, Camilo R. Ronderos   +2 more
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A strukturális és a szintaktikailag jelöletlen fókusz interpretációjának összehasonlító elemzése [The interpretation of Hungarian focus structures]

Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2018
This paper presents the results of a perception experiment exploring the factors influencing the interpretation of Hungarian preverbal (PVF) and syntactically unmarked focus (SUF, focus widening) within the same design.
Tóth Enikő, Csatár Péter
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An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags

Isogloss
This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi?
Elena Castroviejo, Laia Mayol
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The Effect of Collaborative Dialogue on EFL Learners’ Noticing of Pragmatic Forms [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2019
Interlanguage pragmatics has attracted considerable attention in recent years. One strand of interlanguage pragmatics research includes studies comparing the effectiveness of implicit versus explicit teaching on the development of pragmatics.
Azadeh Alizadeh Tabaghi, Baqer Yaqubi, Shirin Abadikhah   +2 more
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Introduction to Experimental Pragmatics

, 2004
Introduction to a collection on experimental ...
Sperber, Dan, Noveck, Ira
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Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text: experimental evidence from German

Language and Cognition
In German written language, demonstrative expressions like diese or die play an important part in connecting discourse referents and making larger stretches of discourse coherent.
Alfons Maes, Nadine Braun, David Peeters
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Approaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally

, 2019
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The role of pragmatic mechanisms in referential communication and categorization: An emergent communication model. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol
Kobrock K, Ohmer X, Bruni E, Gotzner N.
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Neuropragmatics: from classical pragmatics to neurocognitive models of pragmatics in dialogue. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Gutiérrez Cisneros A, Foucart A, Brunellière A.   +2 more
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