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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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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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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Believing What You're Told: Politeness and Scalar Inferences
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The experimental pragmatics literature has extensively investigated the ways in which distinct contextual factors affect the computation of scalar inferences, whose most studied example is the one that allows “Some X-ed” to mean Not all X-ed.
Diana Mazzarella +3 more
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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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Relevance and Conditionals: A Synopsis of Open Pragmatic and Semantic Issues [PDF]
, 2020 Recently several papers have reported relevance effects on the cognitive assessments of indicative conditionals, which pose an explanatory challenge to the Suppositional Theory of conditionals advanced by David Over, which is influential in the ...
Skovgaard-Olsen, Niels
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The pragmatics of specialized communication [PDF]
, 2009 El presente artículo pretende poner de manifiesto la importancia de la pragmática en relación con la comunicación especializada. La estructura, el contenido y la terminología de los textos especializados se ven afectados por factores como la propia ...
Faber, Pamela
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