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Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Demonstratives, definite descriptions and non-redundancy [PDF]

, 2020
In some sentences, demonstratives can be substituted with definite descriptions without any change in meaning. In light of this, many have maintained that demonstratives are just a type of definite description.
Blumberg, Kyle Hammet
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Rethinking Social Language Learning and Politeness in Autism: Key Insights for English Language Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2336-2347, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk, Hakan Demiröz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Child Development, Volume 96, Issue 5, Page 1807-1824, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT To see whether communicative‐based multimodal skills (compared to non‐communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34,
Júlia Florit‐Pons, Mariia Pronina, Alfonso Igualada, Pilar Prieto, Courtenay Norbury   +4 more
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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
I argue for a distinction between two types of positive polarity items (PPIs) which has not been recognized so far. While for some PPIs, anti-licensing is a strictly local phenomenon, for other PPIs anti-licensing should be stated as a global condition.
Benjamin Spector
doaj   +1 more source

The Bidirectionality of Pragmatic Transfer in Chinese English Language Learners' Compliment Responses: The Effects of Second Language Proficiency

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 898-929, September 2025.
Abstract A handful of second language (L2) studies have explored bidirectional pragmatic transfer: forward pragmatic transfer—the influence of learners' first language (L1) on their L2—and reverse pragmatic transfer—the impact of learners' L2 on their L1.
Ying Zhang (she/her)
wiley   +1 more source

When mental states matter

Filosofie Dnes
In this paper I discuss a common ambiguity in the specification of the content of implicatures either in terms of mental states “BELS(ψ)” or in terms of simple propositions “ψ”.
Matej Drobňák
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Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures [PDF]

Organon F
In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”
Matej Drobňák
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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature

Synthese, 2005
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Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics [PDF]

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2006
No abstract.
openaire   +2 more sources