Németh T., Enikő: Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian Language use: Grammar and Pragmatics Interac...
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Christoph Rühlemann: Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics: A guide for research
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Moorean utterances and the illocutionary dynamics of assertion
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
This paper aims to show, in the light of an Austin-inspired speech-act theoretical framework, that there is a fundamental difference in the absurdity that occurs when one utters either the belief or the knowledge version of Moorean sentences (whose linguistic form amounts to “p, but I don’t believe/know that p”) and that this difference lies in the...
The total speech act: Infelicities and cultural variations. The contribution of women anthropologists
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The first receptions of the Speech Act Theory (SAT) featuring women emerged on anthropological grounds. Ruth Finnegan paves the way with the first ethnographic research based on Austinian categories, opening the reflection to problems derived from the empirical observation of ordinary language. Since then, the need to take into account the linguist...
The development of presupposition: Pre-schoolers’ understanding of regret and too
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Little is known about presuppositional skills in pre-school years. Developmental research has mostly focused on children’s understanding of too and evidence is mixed: some studies show that the comprehension of too is not adult-like at least until school age, while more recent findings suggest that even pre-schoolers can interpret too-sentences in ...
Pragmatic impairment and COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global health threat in over 100 years. Its impact is seen in large numbers of premature deaths and the loss of economic stability for many millions of people. A significant number of people who contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus – the virus that causes COVID disease – experience symptoms many months after their acu...
Implicit strategies aimed at persuading the audience in public debates
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Starting from the assumption that implicit strategies like presuppositions and implicatures can be used to reduce the tendency to critical reaction by addressees of linguistic utterances, which qualifies such strategies as useful persuasive devices, the paper also recalls that for this reason they are a typical ingredient of advertisement and propa...
Illocutionary-act-type sensitivity and discursive sequence: An examination of quotation
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The present paper develops the concept of discourse within Austin’s original speech act theory as laid out in Austin, J. L., [1962]1975 How to do things with words. Oxford: Oxford University Press, and provides a model to explain illocutionary acts in discourse. In uttering something, a speaker performs an illocutionary act and imports its conventi...
Ira Noveck: Experimental Pragmatics: The Making of a Cognitive Science
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Getting attention in different languages: A usage-based approach to parenthetical look in Chinese, Dutch, English, and I...
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The present article examines the broad function of attention-getting embodied by parenthetical look in Chinese, Dutch, English and Italian. It analyzes a sample of the marker’s occurrences in corpora of spontaneous conversations and of interviews and discussions in terms of a systematic typology of parameters of interactional behavior and adopts a ...
