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How to make people do things with words
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 454-470, June 2026.Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
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Being Pragmatically Aware in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2015 This paper analyzes Luciana María Cignetti and María Salomé Di Giuseppe’s paper entitled “Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction”.
Carlos De Pablos-Ortega
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Scope as a Source for Non‐Incremental Effects?
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Incrementality is one of the hallmarks of realtime language comprehension. It contrasts sharply with another feature of language comprehension, the high degree of context dependence exhibited by many expressions calling for global adaptations to the larger discourse context.
Fabian Schlotterbeck, Oliver Bott
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IMPLIKATUR PERCAKAPAN ANAK USIA 7 TAHUN DALAM KEGIATAN ANAK DAN ORANG TUA PADA KONTAK INTERPERSONAL
SeBaSaConversational implicatures are hidden expressions of intent that can occur in various speech situations, one of which is in interpersonal contact between children and parents.
Ririn Tria Piani +4 more
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, 2015 International audienceThis chapter develops a research program on implicatures and discourse structure with implications for grammar. The program shows the centrality of discourse structure in linguistic interpretation by detailing how discourse ...
Asher, Nicholas, Nicholas Asher
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The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants
Developmental Neurobiology, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Recent investigations have shown that the neural processing of linguistic content may interact with social cognition. Specifically, semantic processing, as reflected by the N400 event‐related potential, appears to be sensitive to manipulations of Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental content to social partners.
Bálint Forgács +6 more
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An Investigation for Implicatures in Chinese : Implicatures in Chinese and in English are similar ! [PDF]
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, 2014 Implicit opinions are commonly seen in opinion-oriented documents, such as political editorials. Previous work have utilized opinion inference rules to detect implicit opinions evoked by events that positively/negatively affect entities (goodFor/badFor) to improve sentiment analysis for English text.
Lingjia Deng, Janyce Wiebe
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract To navigate in and communicate about the continuous world we experience, our minds segment this experience into discrete event units. Yet, languages differ in how they package core aspects of events into linguistic units. Here, we ask how event units in language and cognition relate to each other, and how this relation might change during ...
Bilge Tınaz, Ercenur Ünal
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 123-134, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 261-281, April 2026.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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