Zhang, Huiyu Zhao, Junxiang Wu, Yicheng
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Intercultural Pragmatics
This paper examines the relationships among cultural variation, power, disagreement, and mitigation devices. Based on a multi-modal analysis of original data from two TV shows (Shark Tank in the US and Dragon’s Den in China), it is found that investors’ linguistic performance shows greater frequency and variation in both disagreement and its mitiga...
Gabbatore, Ilaria Bosco, Francesca M. Mäkinen, Leena Leinonen, Eeva Loukusa, Soile
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Efficient communication requires the interplay of linguistic, cognitive and social skills, including the ability to make contextual inferences and to understand others’ intentions and emotions. The capacity to effectively use language in specific contexts (i.e., pragmatic ability) develops with age, and an assessment of this ability is important fo...
Hopkinson, Christopher
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Intercultural Pragmatics
This paper presents the results of a study seeking insights into how speakers express oppositional stance in an online genre (businesses’ responses to negative customer reviews on TripAdvisor). The research is contrastive, exploring the differences between the practices of speakers in two types of setting – L1 English-speaking countries and countri...
Xia, Jie Chen, Xinren
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Jia, Yanli
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Kenesei, Istvan
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Skoczeń, Izabela Smywiński-Pohl, Aleksander
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Intercultural Pragmatics
In the experiment described in the paper Noah Goodman & Andreas Stuhlmüller. 2013. Knowledge and im-plicature: Modeling language understanding as social cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science 5(1). 173–184, empirical support was provided for the predictive power of the Rational Speech Act (RSA) model concerning the interpretation of utterances empl...
Davis, Wayne A.
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Building on their well-known act theory of propositions, Soames and Hanks have proposed a theory of what it is for sentences to express propositions, thereby answering a central question about the foundations of semantics. The basic idea is that for a sentence to express a proposition in a language is for speakers of the language to use the sentenc...
Voltolini, Alberto
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Intercultural Pragmatics
In this paper, I want to vindicate the contextualist treatment that is typically applied by artefactualists on fictional entities (ficta) both to general and to singular negative existentials. According to this treatment, the truth value of a negative existential, whether general or singular, changes according to whether the existential quantifier ...
Bonardi, Paolo
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Intercultural Pragmatics
It is usually maintained that a subject with manifestly contradictory beliefs is irrational. How can we account, then, for the intuitive rationality of dialetheists, who believe that some manifest contradictions are true? My paper aims to answer this question. Its ultimate goal is to determine a characterization of (or rather a constraint for) rati...
