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Journal of Pragmatics, 2019 We present a new experimental paradigm for investigating lexical expressions that convey different strengths of speaker commitment. Specifically, we compare different evidential contexts for using modal devices, epistemic discourse particles, and ...
Judith Degen +4 more
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Optimality-theoretic pragmatics meets experimental pragmatics [PDF]
ZAS 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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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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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]
, 2016 Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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Preschoolers’ Metaphor Comprehension. Methodological Issues in Experimental Pragmatics
, 2019 There exists a variety of theoretical frameworks attempting to account for the nature, comprehension, and use of everyday metaphor. Since these frameworks use different operational definitions of metaphor, they tend to view the psycholinguistic process ...
A. Babarczy +2 more
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The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012 Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola
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Developing Pragmatic Awareness of Requests in the EFL Classroom: A Focus on Instructional Effects [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2023 Explicit teaching of pragmatics to second language learners has been studied by a large number of researchers. However, the review of the related studies shows that while some researchers believe in the effectiveness of explicit instruction of pragmatics,
Sadegh Sadeghinezhad
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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The past 15 years have seen increasing experimental investigations of core pragmatic questions in the ever more active and lively field of experimental pragmatics.
Masoud Jasbi +2 more
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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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Not knowing a cat is a cat: analyticity and knowledge ascriptions [PDF]
, 2015 It is a natural assumption in mainstream epistemological theory that ascriptions of knowledge of a proposition p track strength of epistemic position vis-à-vis p.
Carter, J. Adam +2 more
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