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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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The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012
Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola
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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, Pietro Perconti, Gerard Steen, Yury Shtyrov, Yan Huang   +4 more
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Pragmatics & Language Learning, Volume 12 [PDF]

, 2010
Pragmatics & Language Learning Volume 12 examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers’ talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental activities.
Kasper, Gabriele, Yoshioka, Jim, Yoshimi, Dina, Nguyen, Hanh thi   +3 more
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Metaphors' journeys across time and genre: tracking the evolution of literary metaphors with temporal embeddings

Frontiers in Language Sciences
Metaphors are a distinctive feature of literary language, yet they remain less studied experimentally than everyday metaphors. Moreover, previous psycholinguistic and computational approaches overlooked the temporal dimension, although many literary ...
Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini   +3 more
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Suppression of literal meaning in single and extended metaphors

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Within Relevance Theory, it has been suggested that extended metaphors might be processed differently relative to single metaphoric uses. While single metaphors are hypothesized to be understood via the creation of an ad hoc concept, extended metaphors ...
Camilo R. Ronderos, Ingrid Lossius Falkum   +1 more
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Development and Validation of a Rapid Tool to Measure Pragmatic Abilities: The Brief Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS Brief)

Behavioral Sciences
Pragmatics is key to communicating effectively, and its assessment in vulnerable populations is of paramount importance. Although tools exist for this purpose, they are often effortful and time-consuming, with complex scoring procedures, which hampers ...
Luca Bischetti, Federico Frau, Veronica Pucci, Giulia Agostoni, Chiara Pompei, Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Biagio Scalingi, Francesca Dall’Igna, Ninni Mangiaracina, Sara Lago, Sonia Montemurro, Sara Mondini, Marta Bosia, Giorgio Arcara, Valentina Bambini   +15 more
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Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear.
Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendrői
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Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor

Scientific Data
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of linguistic and cognitive processes. At the same time, the demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials
Maddalena Bressler, Veronica Mangiaterra, Paolo Canal, Federico Frau, Fabrizio Luciani, Biagio Scalingi, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Chiara Battaglini, Chiara Pompei, Fortunata Romeo, Luca Bischetti, Valentina Bambini   +11 more
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Corpus Analysis and Lexical Pragmatics: An Overview [PDF]

, 2014
Lexical pragmatics studies the processes by which lexically encoded meanings are modified in use; well-studied examples include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension. Relevance theorists have been trying to develop a unitary account
Wilson, D, Kolaiti, P
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