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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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Pragmatic ordering: Informality, experimentation, and the maritime security agenda [PDF]
Review 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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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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The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012 Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola
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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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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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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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Indexical demonstratives and identificational focus in Hungarian
Linguistica, 2016 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. More specifically, the use of indexical demonstratives is explored
Enikő Tóth, Péter Csatár
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Hebrew copulative perception verbs
Linguistics, 2023 Copulative perception verbs such as English sound have received scant attention relative to other perception verbs, especially in non-European languages.
Fishman Alon
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