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Proverbs as a Communication Strategy: (De)codification of Meaning and Pragmatic-Discursive Function

Xavier Pascual López

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia > 2014 > 41 > 1 > 17-29

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive, theoretical overview of how proverbs are used as a communicative and discursive strategy, taking into account the speaker’s communicative intention. I will pay attention both to the benefits of the use of this type of formulaic sequence in the construction of the speech, and to the illocutionary force and pragmatic implications entailed by these...

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Pragmatèmes au pays de la prosodie

Wiesław Banyś

> 2020 > 32 > 89-116

The presented text will touch on the issue too often neglected in studies of pragmatemes, namely the role of prosody in determining what is a pragmateme and what is not. First, the analyses of prosody and of its role in the determination and functioning of various linguistic phenomena (informational structure of the sentence, presupposition, relative propositions) are reviewed, then the definitions...

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Medicalization and linguistic agency

Ashley Feinsinger, David Friedell

Ratio > 33 > 4 > 232 - 242

Medicalization is the process by which conditions, for example, intellectual disability, hyperactivity in children, and posttraumatic stress disorder, become understood as medical disorders. During this process, the medical community often collectively assigns a label to a condition and consequently to those who would be said to have the disorder. We argue that there are at least two previously overlooked...

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The knowledge norm of assertion in dialectical context

Endre Begby

Ratio > 33 > 4 > 295 - 306

This paper aims to show that the Knowledge Norm of Assertion (KNA) can lead to trouble in certain dialectical contexts. Suppose a person knows that p but does not know that they know that p. They assert p in compliance with the KNA. Their interlocutor responds: ‘but do you know that p?’ It will be shown that the KNA blocks the original asserter from providing any good response to this perfectly natural...

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Echo and Pretence in Communicative Irony

Studia Semiotyczne > 2019 > 33 > 2

In the article we present a model of communicative irony formulated within the framework of speech act theory. We claim that acts of verbal irony are special cases of phenomena that John L. Austin referred to as “etiolations of language”. After discussing the concept of communicative irony understood in the spirit of Mitchell S. Green’s expressive communication model, we propose to develop the Austinian...

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Modus exprese osobní paměti v literárním textu

Vladimír Papoušek

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne > 2019 > 16 > 209-226

The main thesis of the author of this study is the opinion that so called personal memory transformed into the literary text is not in any case the representation of past reality of individual. So called personal memory in literature is always set of speech acts with evident intention of narrator. This thesis the author prooved on text of four czech exile authors – Hostovsky, Souckova, Barenyi and...

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Лингвоаксиологический взгляд на типы речевых актов (на материале устной разговорной речи)

Юлия Пикулева

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia > 2019 > 44 > 1 > 319-326

The report is devoted to the linguoaxiological description of types of speech acts. The author comes to the conclusion that direct and indirect linguistic signals of verbali- zation of perceptions of values and attitudes can be allocated among the types of speech acts. Such speech acts as representatives, commissives, directives, declaratives can transfer value meanings with varying degrees of certainty...

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Sposoby wzmocnienia aktu mowy dezaprobaty w języku polskim, rosyjskim i angielskim

Artur Czapiga

Acta Polono-Ruthenica > 2019 > Tom 2 Nr XXIV > 57-67

The present paper is devoted to the phenomenon of disapproval as a speech act in contrastive Polish-Russian-English perspective. Special attention is paid to the utterances in which the speaker strengthens the speech act. The material for the analysis was excerpted from contemporary literary works in the three above mentioned languages.Choosing to express negative evaluation and lack of consent, the...

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Older (but not younger) preschoolers reject incorrect knowledge claims

Emmily Fedra, Marco F. H. Schmidt

British Journal of Developmental Psychology > 37 > 1 > 130 - 145

As epistemic and normative learners, children are dependent on their developing skills for evaluating others’ claims. This competence seems particularly important in the current digital age in which children need to discern valid from invalid assertions about the world in both real‐life and virtual interactions to ultimately gather and accumulate robust knowledge. We investigated whether younger...

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Existují místa nedourčenosti? Ingardenova koncepce literárního díla, řeč a reálné entity skutečnosti

Vladimír Papoušek

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense > 2019 > 16 > 32 > 194-202

This article poses the crucial question whether ‘places of indeterminacy’ discussed in the work of Roman Ingarden really exist. The author resolves the problem using the theory of speech acts. His main thesis is based on the belief that language does not represent places in the real world. On various examples of literary texts he tries to show how literature depends only on language and speech acts...

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Лингвоаксиологический взгляд на типы речевых актов (на материале устной разговорной речи)

Юлия Пикулева

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia > 2019 > 44 t1

The report is devoted to the linguoaxiological description of types of speech acts. The author comes to the conclusion that direct and indirect linguistic signals of verbali- zation of perceptions of values and attitudes can be allocated among the types of speech acts. Such speech acts as representatives, commissives, directives, declaratives can transfer value meanings with varying degrees of certainty...

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Guiding assertions and questions in discourse

Mengxi Yuan, Yurie Hara

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory > 2019 > 37 > 4 > 1545-1583

This paper explores how discourse markers contribute to the update of discourse through a detailed study of Mandarin dique ‘indeed’ and zhende ‘really’. On the basis of empirical data and a naturalness rating experiment, we show that dique and zhende make similar yet different contributions to discourse updates. Dique presupposes that its prejacent issue is old, while zhende presupposes that its prejacent...

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L2 Spanish apologies development during short-term study abroad

Todd A. Hernández

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching > 2018 > 8 > 3 > 599-620

The present study examined the apologies of 18 study abroad (SA) students during a short-term SA experience in Madrid, Spain. Apologies were assessed with a discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of five vignettes that varied across three variables: relative social status of the interlocutor, relative social distance, and seriousness of the offense. Based on performance ratings assigned to them...

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Explicit intervention for Spanish pragmatic development during short‐term study abroad: An examination of learner request production and cognition

Todd A. Hernández, Paulo Boero

Foreign Language Annals > 51 > 2 > 389 - 410

The present study examined the impact of pedagogical intervention on students’ request performance during short‐term study abroad (SA). Prior to departure, students received explicit instruction about requests. During their time abroad, they were given tasks to strategically develop their pragmatic competence. Requests were assessed with a discourse completion task. Results indicated that over time...

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Apologies in the History of English: Evidence from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

Andreas H. Jucker

Corpus Pragmatics > 2018 > 2 > 4 > 375-398

This paper explores two different methods of tracing a specific speech act in a historical corpus. As an example, the development of apologies is investigated in the two hundred years covered by the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA, 1810–2009). One method retrieves apologies through their typical illocutionary force indicating devices (IFIDs), such as sorry, excuse, apologise and pardon...

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Pragmatic Annotation for a Multi-Layered Analysis of Speech Acts: A Methodological Proposal

Alba Milà-Garcia

Corpus Pragmatics > 2018 > 2 > 3 > 265-287

Within the recently-coined sub-field of corpus pragmatics, one of the areas of interest is the study of speech acts and, specifically, how it can profit from the adoption of this methodological approach. However, the acknowledged lack of correspondence between speech acts and linguistic forms makes basic form-based corpus searches unreliable in retrieving speech acts from a corpus. In fact, function-to-form...

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Convention and common ground

Bart Geurts

Mind & Language > 33 > 2 > 115 - 129

Conventions are regularities in social behaviour of the past that enable us to coordinate our actions. Some conventions are lawlike: they are expected to be observed always or nearly always. However, in order to coordinate our actions, it may suffice that a precedent has occurred often enough, and sometimes even a single precedent will do. So, in general, conventions merely enable us to solve our...

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Exploring Digital Conversation Corpora with Process Mining

Dario Compagno, Elena V. Epure, Rébecca Deneckere-Lebas, Camille Salinesi

Corpus Pragmatics > 2018 > 2 > 2 > 193-215

Understanding how sentences constitute conversations is still a matter of disagreement. The automatic analysis of corpora can bring new perspectives on this issue. We show that process mining, a computer science approach for analysing human behaviour, enables the inductive identification of within-turn regularities in digital conversations. We use speech acts as a way to discretise conversations and...

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Why saying what you mean matters: An analysis of trauma team communication

Hee Soo Jung, Charles Warner-Hillard, Ryan Thompson, Krista Haines, more

The American Journal of Surgery > 2018 > 215 > 2 > 250-254

We hypothesized that team communication with unmatched grammatical form and communicative intent (mixed mode communication) would correlate with worse trauma teamwork.Interdisciplinary trauma simulations were conducted. Team performance was rated using the TEAM tool. Team communication was coded for grammatical form and communicative intent. The rate of mixed mode communication (MMC) was calculated...

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Knowing One’s Own Self: An Analysis of Vivekananda’s Approach to One’s Identity

Laxminarayan Lenka

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research > 2018 > 35 > 2 > 267-278

A successful declaration of one’s identity in saying “ahaṃ Brahmāsmi” is a result of knowing one’s own self as indistinguishable from Brahman. The non-difference between oneself and the Brahman is one’s true identity, and it goes without saying, knowledge of one’s true identity constitutes the correct knowing of one’s own self. That the said non-difference is upheld by vedānta, and we need to put...

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Proverbs as a Communication Strategy: (De)codification of Meaning and Pragmatic-Discursive Function

Pragmatèmes au pays de la prosodie

Medicalization and linguistic agency

The knowledge norm of assertion in dialectical context

Echo and Pretence in Communicative Irony

Modus exprese osobní paměti v literárním textu

Лингвоаксиологический взгляд на типы речевых актов (на материале устной разговорной речи)

Sposoby wzmocnienia aktu mowy dezaprobaty w języku polskim, rosyjskim i angielskim

Older (but not younger) preschoolers reject incorrect knowledge claims

Existují místa nedourčenosti? Ingardenova koncepce literárního díla, řeč a reálné entity skutečnosti

Лингвоаксиологический взгляд на типы речевых актов (на материале устной разговорной речи)

Guiding assertions and questions in discourse

L2 Spanish apologies development during short-term study abroad

Explicit intervention for Spanish pragmatic development during short‐term study abroad: An examination of learner request production and cognition

Apologies in the History of English: Evidence from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

Pragmatic Annotation for a Multi-Layered Analysis of Speech Acts: A Methodological Proposal

Convention and common ground

Exploring Digital Conversation Corpora with Process Mining

Why saying what you mean matters: An analysis of trauma team communication

Knowing One’s Own Self: An Analysis of Vivekananda’s Approach to One’s Identity

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