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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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Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Valentina Cuccio +4 more
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Cognitive pathways to communicative-pragmatic dysfunction in schizophrenia: The role of autistic symptoms [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research: CognitionBackground: Communicative-pragmatic dysfunction is recognized as a core feature of schizophrenia, as well as a hallmark of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), strongly intertwined with neurocognitive and sociocognitive domains.
G. Agostoni +15 more
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Strength is relevant: experimental evidence of strength as a marker of commitment
Frontiers in Communication, 2023 When relevance theory tried to express the underlying processes involved during interpretation, Sperber and Wilson posited a process of context elaboration in which interpretation is seen as a path of least effort leading to the selection of a set of ...
Kira Boulat, Didier Maillat
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2022 This paper builds on the notion of reformulation as a category which can be distinguished from other closer functions (paraphrase, conclusion, correction) (Pons Bordería, 2013, 2017).
Shima Salameh Jiménez
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Experimental Contrastive Pragmatics Using Robots [PDF]
Contrastive Pragmatics, 2020 Abstract In this paper, we explore how robots can be used to study pragmatic strategies across a number of languages. Robots can assume many of the roles played by human interaction partners in a range of situations. They can be programmed to produce specific behaviours, each time repeating a behaviour in an identical way for as often as necessary ...
Fischer, Kerstin; id_orcid 0000-0003-1987-5344 +1 more
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Emoji-based reactions to the said construction in spanish and english
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 The said construction (SC), a relatively common but understudied standard English construction, is usually characterized by the use of said in place of a determiner, followed by a noun (N2), typically given (in some sense) and licensed by an antecedent ...
Alicia Stevers
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Limits to the Rational Production of Discourse Connectives
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Rational accounts of language use such as the uniform information density hypothesis, which asserts that speakers distribute information uniformly across their utterances, and the rational speech act (RSA) model, which suggests that speakers optimize the
Frances Yung +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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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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