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Neuropragmatics: from classical pragmatics to neurocognitive models of pragmatics in dialogue [PDF]
Over the past 30 years, there has been significant development in the understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying pragmatic processing. The primary purpose of the present review is to delve into the origins of neuropragmatics, defined as the study ...
Angélica Gutiérrez Cisneros +4 more
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Linguistic signs in action: The neuropragmatics of speech acts [PDF]
What makes human communication exceptional is the ability to grasp speaker’s intentions beyond what is said verbally. How the brain processes communicative functions is one of the central concerns of the neurobiology of language and pragmatics.
Rosario Tomasello
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A test for the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS): Normative data and psychometric properties [PDF]
The Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS) test is a new tool to evaluate pragmatic abilities in patients with acquired communicative deficits, ranging from schizophrenia to neurodegenerative diseases.
Giorgio eArcara, Valentina eBambini
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Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics [PDF]
Valentina Cuccio +4 more
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Editorial: Psychological and neurocognitive mechanisms of presupposition processing in speech and language processing [PDF]
Xiaolin Zhou +6 more
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What can electrophysiology tell us about the cognitive processing of scalar implicatures?
Abstract One of the most widely studied phenomena in neuropragmatics—the study of how the brain derives context‐ and speaker‐based aspects of meaning—is scalar implicature. A scalar implicature is the interpretation of a proposition like Some of the students failed as meaning that a stronger proposition (All of the students failed) is not true.
Stephen Politzer‐Ahles
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In daily life, humans often tell lies to make another person feel better about themselves, or to be polite, or socially appropriate in situations when telling the blunt truth would be perceived as inappropriate.
Renuka M. Giles +2 more
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The presence of aphasia following left hemisphere damage and of spatial neglect following right hemisphere damage are both associated with a significant negative impact on the functional outcome of stroke patients referred to rehabilitation.
Nachum Soroker
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Understanding irony: an ERP analysis on the elaboration of acoustic ironic statements [PDF]
Irony is part of our daily experience, that is probably the reason why a lot of studies have been trying to define its nature and the way we are able to understand the pragmatic intentions lying behind ironic communication. This study addresses the issue
Amenta Simona, Michela Balconi
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Neurostimulation in Pragmatic Language Research: A Comprehensive Review
Pragmatic language involves the use of language in social interactions, including understanding conversational norms, interpreting non- literal language, and using language appropriately in various social contexts.
Hazel Zeynep KURADA
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