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Garrett, Merrill, and Robert M. Harnish. "Experimental pragmatics." Pragmatics and Cognition 15, no. 1 (2007): 65–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.1.07gar.

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Grice proposed to investigate ‘the total signification of the utterance’. One persistent criticism of Grice’s taxonomy of signification is that he missed an important category of information. This content, and/or the process of providing it, goes by a variety of labels: ‘generalized implicature’, ‘explicature’, ‘unarticulated constituents’, ‘default heuristics’, ‘impliciture’. In this study we first take a sample of such phenomena and, from the point of view of pure pragmatics, survey the central descriptions of the content expressed and the mechanisms that might deliver these contents. We the

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Blutner, Reinhard. "Optimality-theoretic pragmatics meets experimental pragmatics." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 51 (January 1, 2009): 27–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.51.2009.373.

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The main concern of this article is to discuss some recent findings concerning the psychological reality of optimality-theoretic pragmatics and its central part – bidirectional optimization. A present challenge is to close the gap between experimental pragmatics and neo-Gricean theories of pragmatics. I claim that OT pragmatics helps to overcome this gap, in particular in connection with the discussion of asymmetries between natural language comprehension and production. The theoretical debate will be concentrated on two different ways of interpreting bidirection: first, bidirectional optimiza

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Zubeldia, Larraitz. "Experimental pragmatics/semantics." Journal of Pragmatics 44, no. 14 (2012): 2100–2103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.09.013.

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Fischer, Kerstin, and Alicja Depka Prondzinska. "Experimental Contrastive Pragmatics Using Robots." Contrastive Pragmatics 1, no. 1 (2020): 82–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10004.

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Abstract In this paper, we explore how robots can be used to study pragmatic strategies across a number of languages. Robots can assume many of the roles played by human interaction partners in a range of situations. They can be programmed to produce specific behaviours, each time repeating a behaviour in an identical way for as often as necessary. Thus, robots can be useful tools for investigating human behaviour in certain situations and even in cross-cultural contexts. We explore this use of robots in two case studies – one which investigates the delivery of bad news in Danish, German and E

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Taguchi, Naoko. "Teaching Pragmatics: Trends and Issues." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 31 (March 2011): 289–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190511000018.

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Theoretical, empirical, and practical interest in pragmatic competence and development for second language (L2) learners has resulted in a large body of literature on teaching L2 pragmatics. This body of literature has diverged into two major domains: (a) a group of experimental studies directly testing the efficacy of various instructional methods in pragmatics learning and (b) research that explores optimal instructional practice and resources for pragmatic development in formal classroom settings. This article reviews literature in these two domains and aims at providing a collective view o

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Kennedy, Alan, Wayne Murray, and Claire Boissiere. "Parafoveal pragmatics revisited." European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 16, no. 1-2 (2004): 128–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09541440340000187.

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Phelan, Mark. "Experimental Pragmatics: An Introduction for Philosophers." Philosophy Compass 9, no. 1 (2014): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12093.

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Cummins, Chris. "Experimental pragmatics/semantics (review)." Language 88, no. 3 (2012): 660–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2012.0062.

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Gibbs, Raymond W. "Stability and variability in linguistic pragmatics." Pragmatics and Society 1, no. 1 (2010): 32–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.1.1.03gib.

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The study of linguistic pragmatics is always caught in the wonderful tension between seeking broad human pragmatic abilities and showing the subtle ways that communication is dependent on specific people and social situations. These different foci on areas of stability and variability in linguistic and nonlinguistic behavior are often accompanied by very different theoretical accounts of how and why people act, speak, and understand in the ways they do. Within contemporary research in experimental pragmatics, there are always instances of some people behaving in regular patterns and other peop

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Foster-Cohen, Susan H. "Exploring the boundary between syntax and pragmatics: relevance and the binding of pronouns." Journal of Child Language 21, no. 1 (1994): 237–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900008734.

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ABSTRACTThis paper explores the interface between syntax and pragmatics, focusing on the binding of pronouns and the pragmatics of the paradigms used to test this aspect of syntactic knowledge. Reinhart's (1986) version of Binding Theory (which accords a specific role to pragmatics in processes of pronoun resolution) and Sperber & Wilson's (1986) Theory of Relevance are used to examine the syntax and pragmatics of pronoun interpretation. A set of predictions based on Relevance Theory are evaluated against published results of tests of Binding Theory. The paper concludes that Relevance Theo

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Derwing, Tracey M., Erin Waugh, and Murray J. Munro. "Pragmatically speaking." Applied Pragmatics 3, no. 2 (2021): 107–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ap.20001.der.

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Abstract The relationship between second language (L2) comprehensibility and pragmatics is explored in two experiments involving instruction of speech acts to learners enrolled in a Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada program. The study was designed to determine whether improved pragmatic competence results in enhanced comprehensibility (how easy L2 speech is to understand). Two intact classes participated; one received 25 hours of pragmatics instruction, while the control group received the standard curriculum (no focus on pragmatics). Both classes were recorded in role-plays based o

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Meibauer, Jörg. "Pragmatic evidence, context, and story design: an essay on recent developments in experimental pragmatics." Language Sciences 34, no. 6 (2012): 768–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2012.04.014.

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Timofeeva, Mariya K. "Linguistic scales: current state-of-the-art." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 17, no. 3 (2019): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2019-17-3-5-17.

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The aim of this article consists in reviewing the basic areas of studying language scales in pragmatics; several prospects of their investigation are discussed. Presently, language scales are the object of intensive research in semantics and pragmatics, from linguistic, logical, psycholinguistic, and neuro-linguistic perspectives. We are interested mainly in pragmatics (although the area of semantics is also considered) and concentrate on linguistic rather than logical, psycholinguistic, or neuro-linguistic aspects. The article continues the series of publications intending to review and syste

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Джарбо Сaмер Омар. "The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of the Singular Feminine Demonstrative in Jordanian Arabic." East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 4, no. 1 (2017): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2017.4.1.jar.

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The aim in this study is to investigate the interface between semantics and pragmatics in relation to the use of the indexical demonstrative ‘haay’ ‘this-S.F.’ in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It is argued here that an analysis of meaning in relation to context-sensitivity inherent in the use of ‘haay’ can give evidence to the view that semantic and pragmatic processes can be distinguished from each other. I have found that the meaning of ‘haay’ consists of three distinct levels: linguistic, semantic, and pragmatic meaning. The denotational and conventional senses of ‘haay’ comprise its linguistic me

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Barón, Júlia, and M. Luz Celaya. "‘May I do something for you?’: The effects of audio-visual material (captioned and non-captioned) on EFL pragmatic learning." Language Teaching Research 26, no. 2 (2022): 238–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13621688211067000.

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The present study deals with the effect of audio-visual material for second language (L2) pragmatic learning in the foreign language classroom. More specifically, it analyzes whether being exposed to captioned and non-captioned input in an experimental condition entailing no instruction on pragmatics might have any influence on the learners’ pragmatic performance. To this aim, two intact classes ( N = 31) of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) at a B1 level were exposed to videos with captions and without captions, respectively. Before and after watching the videos, all the student

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Babarczy, Anna, Andrea Balázs, and Fruzsina Krizsai. "Preschoolers’ Metaphor Comprehension. Methodological Issues in Experimental Pragmatics." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 11, no. 2 (2019): 133–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0017.

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AbstractThere exists a variety of theoretical frameworks attempting to account for the nature, comprehension, and use of everyday metaphor. Since these frameworks use different operational definitions of metaphor, they tend to view the psycholinguistic process of comprehending metaphorical language and the various factors that may play a role in metaphor processing from different perspectives. The first part of the paper briefly summarizes four of these theoretical approaches to everyday metaphor (Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Similarity Theory, Relevance Theory, and the Optimal Innovation Hypot

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Rees, Alice. "Taking the plunge: Tips for preparing, attending, and presenting at your first conference." PsyPag Quarterly 1, no. 99 (2016): 62–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpspag.2016.1.99.62.

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The first conference I attended was during the first year of my PhD studies and I gave an oral presentation. The conference was in experimental pragmatics (XPRAG) and was held in Chicago. XPRAG is a biannual conference which brings together people from a range of backgrounds, including psychology and linguistics, who have an interest in experimental approaches to studying pragmatic phenomena. Reflecting on my experience, I have compiled a list of hints and tips which I hope will help others when they come to presenting their research at conferences.

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Kim, Hyekyeng. "THE EFFECTS OF PRAGMATIC INSTRUCTION ON THE PRAGMATIC AWARENESS AND PRODUCTION OF KOREAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS." Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 7, no. 2 (2017): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v7i2.8136.

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Despite the ongoing research of interlanguage pragmatics, intervention studies concerning pragmatic instruction have not been conducted as actively. The present study aims to investigate the effects of pragmatic instruction on Korean university students specifically regarding compliment responses. The effects of the instruction were examined in terms of the students' pragmatic awareness and production, according to the various language proficiency levels of the students. A total of 106 Korean university students from various majors participated in the study. The experimental group received exp

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Benz, Anton, Katja Jasinskaja, and Uli Sauerland. "Theoretical Pragmatics: An Introduction." International Review of Pragmatics 4, no. 2 (2012): 133–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00040202.

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The last decade witnessed a surge of new research in pragmatics, fuelled by the emergence of new theoretical frameworks, an increased interest in the semantics-pragmatics interface, and the establishment of experimental pragmatics as a new research paradigm. Many of these developments concern the line of pragmatics which originated with the work of H. Paul Grice. Of new theoretical frameworks, we may mention different variants of optimality and game theoretic approaches, localist semantic theories of embedded implicatures, logical globalist formalisations of Gricean pragmatics, and multi-layer

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Harnish, Robert, and Merrill Garrett. "Q-Phenomena, I-Phenomena and Impliciture: Some Experimental Pragmatics." International Review of Pragmatics 1, no. 1 (2009): 84–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187731009x455857.

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AbstractElements of communicative content that are not expressed by constituents of the sentence uttered, what we will call "unexpressed elements of content" (UECs), played an important role in the history and development of generative grammar. In the 80's and 90's, mostly inspired by the work of Grice, UECs and mechanisms for recovering them not contemplated by linguistic theory of the time, began to surface under a variety of labels. We will collectively refer to these phenomena as 'impliciture' (extending Bach: 1994). Impliciture phenomena raise some interesting questions, only some of whic

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Politzer, Guy, and Laura Macchi. "Reasoning and pragmatics." Mind & Society 1, no. 1 (2000): 73–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02512230.

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Erk, Katrin. "The Probabilistic Turn in Semantics and Pragmatics." Annual Review of Linguistics 8, no. 1 (2022): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-015515.

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This article provides an overview of graded and probabilistic approaches in semantics and pragmatics. These approaches share a common set of core research goals: ( a) a concern with phenomena that are best described as graded, including a vast lexicon of words whose meanings adapt flexibly to the contexts in which they are used, as well as reasoning under uncertainty about interlocutors, their goals, and their strategies; ( b) the need to show that representations are learnable, i.e., that a listener can learn semantic representations and pragmatic reasoning from data; ( c) an emphasis on empi

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Erk, Katrin. "The Probabilistic Turn in Semantics and Pragmatics." Annual Review of Linguistics 8, no. 1 (2022): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-015515.

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This article provides an overview of graded and probabilistic approaches in semantics and pragmatics. These approaches share a common set of core research goals: ( a) a concern with phenomena that are best described as graded, including a vast lexicon of words whose meanings adapt flexibly to the contexts in which they are used, as well as reasoning under uncertainty about interlocutors, their goals, and their strategies; ( b) the need to show that representations are learnable, i.e., that a listener can learn semantic representations and pragmatic reasoning from data; ( c) an emphasis on empi

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Coppock, Elizabeth, and Thomas Brochhagen. "Diagnosing truth, interactive sincerity, and depictive sincerity." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 23 (August 24, 2013): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v23i0.2662.

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This paper presents two experimental findings pertaining to the semantics and pragmatics of superlative modifiers ("at least", "at most"). First, in a scenario with N objects of a given type, speakers consistently judge it true that there are ‘at least N’ and ‘at most N’ objects of that type. This supports the debated position that the ignorance conveyed by superlative modifiers is an implicature, not an entailment, and contrasts with results obtained using an inference-judgment paradigm, suggesting that truth-value judgment tasks are impervious to certain pragmatic infelicities that inference

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Benz, Anton, and Reinhard Blutner. "Papers on pragmasemantics." ZAS Papers in Linguistics 51 (January 1, 2009): 216. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.51.2009.371.

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Optimality theory as used in linguistics (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004; Smolensky & Legendre, 2006) and cognitive psychology (Gigerenzer & Selten, 2001) is a theoretical framework that aims to integrate constraint based knowledge representation systems, generative grammar, cognitive skills, and aspects of neural network processing. In the last years considerable progress was made to overcome the artificial separation between the disciplines of linguistic on the one hand which are mainly concerned with the description of natural language competences and the psychological discipline

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Gretsch, Cécile. "Pragmatics and integrational linguistics." Language & Communication 29, no. 4 (2009): 328–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2009.02.010.

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Krzyżanowska, Karolina, and Igor Douven. "Missing-link conditionals: pragmatically infelicitous or semantically defective?" Intercultural Pragmatics 15, no. 2 (2018): 191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2018-0004.

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Abstract According to virtually all major theories of conditionals, conditionals with a true antecedent and a true consequent are true. Yet conditionals whose antecedent and consequent have nothing to do with each other—so-called missing-link conditionals—strike us as odd, regardless of the truth values of their constituent clauses. Most theorists attribute this apparent oddness to pragmatics, but on a recent proposal, it rather betokens a semantic defect. Research in experimental pragmatics suggests that people can be more or less sensitive to pragmatic cues and may be inclined to differing d

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Gu, Xiaobo, and Yanfei Zhang. "Ira Noveck: Experimental Pragmatics: The Making of a Cognitive Science." Intercultural Pragmatics 19, no. 2 (2022): 263–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-2006.

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Noveck, Ira A., and Anne Reboul. "Experimental Pragmatics: a Gricean turn in the study of language." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12, no. 11 (2008): 425–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.009.

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Herskovits, Annette. "Semantics and Pragmatics of Locative Expressions*." Cognitive Science 9, no. 3 (1985): 341–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0903_3.

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Spellman, Barbara A., and Keith J. Holyoak. "Pragmatics in Analogical Mapping." Cognitive Psychology 31, no. 3 (1996): 307–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cogp.1996.0019.

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Mueller-Lust, Rachel A. G., and Georgia M. Green. "Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding." American Journal of Psychology 103, no. 2 (1990): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1423148.

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Donaldson, Bryan. "Nativelike right-dislocation in near-native French." Second Language Research 27, no. 3 (2011): 361–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658310395866.

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Recent research on advanced and near-native second-language (L2) speakers has focused on the acquisition of interface phenomena, for example at the syntax—pragmatics interface. Proponents of the Interface Hypothesis (e.g. Sorace, 2005; Sorace and Filiaci, 2006; Tsimpli and Sorace, 2006; Sorace and Serratrice, 2009) argue that (external) interfaces present difficulties for L2 grammars, resulting in permanent deficits even in near-native grammars. Other research, however, has argued that interfaces are acquirable, albeit with delays (Ivanov, 2009; Rothman, 2009). This study examines right-disloc

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Müller, Cornelia. "How recurrent gestures mean." Gesture 16, no. 2 (2017): 277–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/gest.16.2.05mul.

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Abstract Drawing upon corpus analyses of recurrent gestures, a pragmatics perspective on gestural meaning and conventionalization will be developed. Gesture pragmatics is considered in terms of usage-based, embodied and interactively emerging meaning. The article brings together cognitive linguistic, cognitive semiotic and interactional perspectives on meaning making. How the interrelation between different types of context (interactional, semantic/pragmatic/syntactic, distribution across a corpus) with the embodied motivation of kinesic forms in actions and movement experiences of the body mi

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Zhang, Jianhua. "Cohesion, coherence and temporal reference from an experimental corpus pragmatics perspective." Pragmatics and Society 11, no. 3 (2020): 501–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.00034.zha.

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Murphy, Elliot. "Phasal Eliminativism, Anti-Lexicalism, and the Status of the Unarticulated." Biolinguistics 10 (March 26, 2016): 021–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9047.

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This paper explores the prospect that grammatical expressions are propositionally whole and psychologically plausible, leading to the explanatory burden being placed on syntax rather than pragmatic processes, with the latter crucially bearing the feature of optionality. When supposedly unarticulated constituents are added, expressions which are propositionally distinct, and not simply more specific, arise. The ad hoc nature of a number of pragmatic processes carry with them the additional problem of effectively acting as barriers to implementing language in the brain. The advantages of an anti

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VAN TIEL, BOB, and MIKHAIL KISSINE. "Quantity-based reasoning in the broader autism phenotype: A web-based study." Applied Psycholinguistics 39, no. 6 (2018): 1373–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014271641800036x.

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ABSTRACTWe conducted a web-based study investigating whether the probability of deriving four types of pragmatic inferences depends on the degree to which one has traits associated with the autism spectrum, as measured by the autism spectrum quotient test (Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Skinner, Martin, & Clubley, 2001). In line with previous research, we show that, independently of their autism spectrum quotient, participants are likely to derive those pragmatic inferences that can be derived by reasoning solely about alternatives that the speaker could have used. However, if the derivation of

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Pasquier, Philippe, and Brahim Chaib-draa. "Agent communication pragmatics: the cognitive coherence approach." Cognitive Systems Research 6, no. 4 (2005): 364–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.03.002.

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Chaves, Monica de Freitas Frias, and Cilene Rodrigues. "The impact of schizotypy on pragmatics." Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos 62 (October 2, 2020): e020014. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/cel.v62i0.8658759.

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High levels of linguistic referential failures are associated with liability to develop schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and it has been shown that these failures can differentiate healthy subjects, high-schizotypal and schizophrenics groups. Nevertheless, few investigations have focused on whether or not schizotypal traits in nonclinical populations can also impact linguistic reference. In Brazilian Portuguese, only one previous study (acceptability judgements task) had been conducted, and its results suggest association between schizotypal traits and a more rigid preference for assignment o

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Ravesh, Mahnaz Mahmoudi, and Hossein Heidari Tabrizi. "The Effect of Teaching Interlanguage Pragmatics on Interpretation Ability of Iranian Translation Students." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8, no. 3 (2017): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.3p.44.

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The present study sought to investigate whether Iranian translation students were successful in comprehending interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) features. Moreover, it tried to figure out whether teaching interlanguage pragmatics proved helpful for the improvement of interpretation ability of Iranian translation students. To this end, 30 students of undergraduate translation studying at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, were chosen to participate in the study. Then, they were divided into two groups of control and experimental. The Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was used to measure

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Schneider, Klaus P. "Pragmatic variation and cultural models." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10, no. 2 (2012): 346–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.10.2.05sch.

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The present paper focuses on pragmatic variation between national varieties of English, reporting an experimental study conducted in the framework of variational pragmatics. It is argued that experimental methods such as dialogue production tasks do not reveal actual verbal behaviour, which is subject to the specific circumstances of concrete social situations, but the underlying behavioural norms of the respective sociocultural community of speakers. These norms emerge from repeated encounters with similar verbal behaviour in social situations of the same type and are collectively shared prot

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Zhang, Ying. "The Influence of Combining Computer-Assisted Language Learning With Instruction on Chinese College Students’ L2 Pragmatic Ability." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 45, no. 2 (2022): 243–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2022-0206.

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Abstract In the area of computer-assisted language learning (CALL), although a number of studies have adopted various CALL-based devices (e. g., blogs, gaming, and synthetic environments) to foster second language (L2) acquisition, the vital component of instruction has received little attention. The present study explored the usefulness of CALL-based communication in conjunction with instruction on EFL learners’ L2 pragmatic development. Sixty-two EFL students from a university in China were recruited for the current research. The experimental group communicated with a native English speaker

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Silva, Rosângela Souto. "Pragmatics, bilingualism, and the native speaker." Language & Communication 20, no. 2 (2000): 161–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0271-5309(99)00019-1.

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de Oliveira Fernandes, Daniel, and Steve Oswald. "On the Rhetorical Effectiveness of Implicit Meaning—A Pragmatic Approach." Languages 8, no. 1 (2022): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8010006.

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This paper explores the interface between pragmatics and argumentation by considering the impact of different types of implicit meaning on different types of rhetorical effects. On the rhetorical front and drawing on classical rhetoric but going beyond the Aristotelian rhetorical triangle (ethos, logos, pathos), the paper discusses an open list of rhetorical effects affecting speakers, audiences, messages and the conversational flow of interaction. On the pragmatic front, the paper accounts for how specific features of different types of implicit meaning (presupposition, implicature and back-d

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Yousefi, Marziyeh, and Hossein Nassaji. "The Impact of Corrective Feedback on L2 Pragmatics Production in Face-to-face and Technology-mediated Settings." Language Teaching Research Quarterly 39 (December 2023): 305–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2024.39.19.

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This paper presents findings from a quasi-experimental study that examined the effect of corrective feedback (CF) on L2 pragmatics, specifically comparing Face-to-Face (FF) and Technology-Mediated (TM) modes. The study involved a total of forty-four ESL students from three parallel intact classes. The primary focus of this paper is to report the results obtained from data collected through production tasks employing Role-play scenarios. To analyze the data, a mixed-model Analysis of Variance was conducted, examining the main and interaction effects of CF, delivery mode (FF and TM), speech act

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Hipólito, Inês. "Anatomia da Linguagem: Podemos Compreender Jogos de Linguagem a Partir de Redes Corticais?" Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 18, no. 1 (2017): 84–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kjps-2017-0004.

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AbstractThere is today much interest in research of neuronal substrata in metaphor processing. It has been suggested that the right hemisphere yields a key role in the comprehension of figurative language (non-literal) and, particularly, in metaphors. Figurative language is included in pragmatics, a branch of linguistics that researches the use of language, in opposition to the study of the system of language. There lingers, though, an open debate in respect to the identification of the specific aspects concerning semantics, as opposed to those dominated by pragmatics. Can studies from neurona

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Westera, Matthijs, and Adrian Brasoveanu. "Ignorance in context: The interaction of modified numerals and QUDs." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 24 (April 5, 2015): 414. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v24i0.2436.

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<p>We argue for a purely pragmatic account of the ignorance inferences associated with superlative but not comparative modifiers (at least vs. more than). Ignorance inferences for both modifiers are triggered when the question under discussion (QUD) requires an exact answer, but when these modifiers are used out of the blue the QUD is implicitly reconstructed based on the way these modifiers are typically used, and on the fact that "at least n", but not "more than n", mentions and does not exclude the lower bound "exactly n". The paper presents new experimental evidence for the context-s

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Frixione, Marcello, and Antonio Lombardi. "Street Signs and Ikea Instruction Sheets: Pragmatics and Pictorial Communication." Review of Philosophy and Psychology 6, no. 1 (2014): 133–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-014-0216-1.

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Green, E. Mara. "Performing gesture." Gesture 16, no. 2 (2017): 329–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/gest.16.2.07gre.

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Abstract This article focuses on a signed performance by a deaf Nepali man who communicates in natural sign, which is similar to home sign but with greater cross-signer conventionality. The signer skillfully employs pantomimic (“gestural”) and lexical (“linguistic”) repertoires for distinct pragmatic purposes. In the narrative frame, he uses pantomime to vividly enact his morning routine; in the metanarrative frame, he utilizes lexical signs to directly address the audience. By examining the two repertoires’ formal characteristics and their relationship to different frames, this analysis showc

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BOSCO, FRANCESCA M., ROMINA ANGELERI, LIVIA COLLE, KATIUSCIA SACCO, and BRUNO G. BARA. "Communicative abilities in children: An assessment through different phenomena and expressive means." Journal of Child Language 40, no. 4 (2013): 741–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000913000081.

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ABSTRACTPrevious studies on children's pragmatic abilities have tended to focus on just one pragmatic phenomenon and one expressive means at a time, mainly concentrating on comprehension, and overlooking the production side. We assessed both comprehension and production in relation to several pragmatic phenomena (simple and complex standard communication acts, irony, and deceit) and several expressive means (linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic). Our study involved 390 Italian-speaking children divided into three age groups: 5;0–5;6, 6;6–7;0, and 8;0–8;6. Children's performance on all t

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