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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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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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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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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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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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Reconsidering power and distance [PDF]
, 1996 A wide range of studies indicate that power and distance affect the production and interpretation of language. However, this paper argues that greater consideration needs to be given to the conceptual nature of these dimensions, and to terminological ...
Adamopoulos +46 more
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Questioning and responding in Italian [PDF]
, 2010 Questions are design problems for both the questioner and the addressee. They must be produced as recognizable objects and must be comprehended by taking into account the context in which they occur and the local situated interests of the participants ...
Rossano, F.
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Editorial: Relevance Theory and Intercultural Communication Problems [PDF]
, 2017 This editorial to the special issue of RiL dedicated to relevance theory and problems of intercultural communication addresses the general requirements that a theory of communication must meet to be applicable to the analysis of intercultural ...
Agnieszka Piskorska +38 more
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The Politeness Prosody of the Javanese Directive Speech [PDF]
, 2009 This experimental phonetic research deals with the prosodies of directive speech in Javanese. The research procedures were: (1) speech production, (2) acoustic analysis, and (3) perception test.
Rahyono, F. X. (F)
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