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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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Measuring the polyfunctionality of discourse markers experimentally: eye-tracking and visual attention as cognitive-processing indicators. Peninsular Spanish o sea [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2022
Discourse markers (DMs) are generally described as polyfunctional. There are different approaches to polyfunctionality (homonymy, monosemy, polysemy), which have been widely explored theoretically; however, there are not many experimental approaches ...
Shima Salameh Jiménez
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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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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, Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen   +2 more
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Pre-Stimulus Activity of Left and Right TPJ in Linguistic Predictive Processing: A MEG Study

Brain Sciences
Background. The left and right temporoparietal junctions (TPJs) are two brain areas involved in several brain networks, largely studied for their diverse roles, from attentional orientation to theory of mind and, recently, predictive processing.
Sara Lago, Sara Zago, Valentina Bambini, Giorgio Arcara   +3 more
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Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures

Glossa, 2018
We ask whether iconic co-speech gestures are judged as more natural by naive participants when their content is entailed by a preceding context, or repeated in the same utterance, or when they contribute new information (i.e., are nontrivial).
Christina Zlogar, Kathryn Davidson
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Association Between Dinutuximab Beta Exposure and Post‐End‐of‐Treatment Survival in Neuroblastoma: A Weighted Patient‐Level Analysis of Three Clinical Studies

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The association between exposure to dinutuximab beta (DB) and event‐free survival (EFS) or overall survival (OS) of neuroblastoma patients was assessed using data collected during three clinical trials (five cohorts). Methods A systematic review (March 2026) was conducted to identify relevant studies (prospective; registered DB ...
Przemysław Holko, Holger N. Lode, Alberto Garaventa, Carla Manzitti, Roberto Luksch, Dominique Valteau‐Couanet, Marion Gambart, John Anderson, Juliet Gray, Adela Canete, Lucas Moreno, Aleksandra Wieczorek, Cormac Owens, Shifra Ash, Isaac Yaniv, Genevieve Laureys, Hans Loibner, Katarzyna Śladowska, Ruth Ladenstein, Paweł Kawalec   +19 more
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Characterizing the patient experience of physical restraint in psychiatric settings via a linguistic, sentiment, and metaphor analysis

Scientific Reports
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety in life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance of considering the patient’s subjective experience.
Cristiano Nichini, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Biagio Scalingi, Eleonora Alecci, Luca Toschi, Simone Cavallotti, Anna Chiara Cigognini, Federico Durbano, Silvia Ferraris, Patrizia Santinon, Chiara Pompei, Federico Frau, Veronica Mangiaterra, Luca Bischetti, Marta Bosia, Gianluca Peschi, Pierluigi Politi, Valentina Bambini   +17 more
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To accommodate or to ignore?: The presuppositions of again and continue across contexts

Glossa, 2018
One central question in presupposition theory concerns the effect of using a presupposition trigger in a context where its presupposition is not supported.
Florian Schwarz, Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin, Jeremy Zehr   +2 more
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Singular they in context

Glossa, 2020
There is a growing experimental and theoretical literature on singular they, much of it focusing on the nature of the antecedents it takes (Foertsch & Gernsbacher 1997; Bjorkman 2017; Doherty & Conklin 2017; Prasad 2017; Ackerman et al.
Chung-Hye Han, Holly Gendron, Keir Moulton, Sander Nederveen, Trevor Block   +4 more
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