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Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Valentina Cuccio   +4 more
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Experimental Contrastive Pragmatics Using Robots [PDF]

open access: yesContrastive 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   +1 more
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Pragmatic ordering: Informality, experimentation, and the maritime security agenda [PDF]

open access: yesReview of International Studies, 2021
AbstractThe question of when and how international orders change remains a pertinent issue of International Relations theory. This article develops the model of pragmatic ordering to conceptualise change. The model of pragmatic ordering synthesises recent theoretical arguments for a focus on ordering advanced in-practice theory, pragmatist philosophy ...
Christian Bueger, Timothy Edmunds
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Experimental approaches to pragmatics

open access: yes, 2022
Since the pioneering work of Wittgenstein and Grice, Pragmatics, the study of how language is used in context, has been traditionally addressed by philosophers and linguists from a theoretical perspective. However, classic pragmatic notions such as communicative intentions, implicatures or usage-based meaning must now be understood in light of a ...
Valentina Cuccio   +4 more
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The pragmatics of exhaustivity in embedded questions: an experimental comparison of know and predict in German and English

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +3 more
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Egy interfész jelenség: indexikális demonstratívumok azonosító fókuszban [PDF]

open access: yesJelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2015
An interface phenomenon: indexical demonstratives in focus *** This paper presents the results of an experiment regarding the use of Hungarian indexical demonstratives where it is shown that the use of indexicals depends on the nature of the context ...
Tóth, Enikő, Csatár, Péter
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Optimality-theoretic pragmatics meets experimental pragmatics [PDF]

open access: yesZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2009
The main concern of this article is to discuss some recent findings concerning the psychological reality of optimality-theoretic pragmatics and its central part – bidirectional optimization. A present challenge is to close the gap between experimental pragmatics and neo-Gricean theories of pragmatics.
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Singular they in context

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
There is a growing experimental and theoretical literature on singular they, much of it focusing on the nature of the antecedents it takes (Foertsch & Gernsbacher 1997; Bjorkman 2017; Doherty & Conklin 2017; Prasad 2017; Ackerman et al.
Chung-Hye Han   +4 more
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Strength is relevant: experimental evidence of strength as a marker of commitment

open access: yesFrontiers 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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