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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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Experimental approaches to pragmatics
, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 +3 more
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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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Egy interfész jelenség: indexikális demonstratívumok azonosító fókuszban [PDF]
Jelentés 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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