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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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Cognitive pathways to communicative-pragmatic dysfunction in schizophrenia: The role of autistic symptoms [PDF]

Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
Background: 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, M.F. D'Incalci, M. Bechi, J. Sapienza, M. Spangaro, V. Cirulli, M. Buonocore, F. Martini, F. Frau, C. Barattieri di San Pietro, L. Bischetti, C. Guglielmino, F. Cocchi, R. Cavallaro, V. Bambini, M. Bosia   +15 more
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Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor [PDF]

Scientific Data
Research 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, Veronica Mangiaterra, Paolo Canal, Federico Frau, Fabrizio Luciani, Biagio Scalingi, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Chiara Battaglini, Chiara Pompei, Fortunata Romeo, Luca Bischetti, Valentina Bambini   +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 Sciences
Pragmatics 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, Federico Frau, Veronica Pucci, Giulia Agostoni, Chiara Pompei, Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Biagio Scalingi, Francesca Dall’Igna, Ninni Mangiaracina, Sara Lago, Sonia Montemurro, Sara Mondini, Marta Bosia, Giorgio Arcara, Valentina Bambini   +15 more
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Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Valentina Cuccio, Pietro Perconti, Gerard Steen, Yury Shtyrov, Yan Huang   +4 more
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The Role of Working Memory in the Processing of Scalar Implicatures of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

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, Linde Van de Weyer, Marc De Hert, Marc De Hert, Martien Wampers   +4 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, Ernesto Guerra, Pia Knoeferle, Pia Knoeferle, Pia Knoeferle   +4 more
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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, Francesca M. Bosco, Maurizio Tirassa, Ilaria Gabbatore, Ilaria Gabbatore   +4 more
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The pragmatics of exhaustivity in embedded questions: an experimental comparison of know and predict in German and English

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionWe present a cross-linguistic experimental study that explores the exhaustivity properties of questions embedded under wissen/to know and korrekt vorhersagen/to correctly predict in German and English.
Lea Fricke, Emilie Destruel, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea   +3 more
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