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A recipient-centered perception model for speech act analysis: Insights from compliments on screen 以接受者为中心的言语行为分析感知模型：来自屏幕上赞美的见解

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.003

Fang Xie

Speech act perception has increasingly attracted attention in the field of pragmatics. However, few studies have systematically examined how multiple social factors influence compliment perceptions, and even fewer have explored the underlying mechanisms involved. To address these gaps, this study investigates how recipients from different cultures (Swiss, English, Chinese), gender, and age groups perceive compliments in tele-cinematic discourse, and proposes a recipient-centered model of compliment perception. Drawing on experiments and interviews, the study engaged 396 validly sampled viewers to evaluate three compliment scenes under both visual-only and audio-visual conditions. Results indicate that all three social variables (culture, gender and age) contribute to significant perceptual changes when transitioning from silent to audio-visual modes. However, only culture leads to significant between-group differences under both conditions. Theoretically, the study demonstrates that recipients, as perceptual subjects, are shaped by a complex interplay between perception modes (perspective, scope, cultural reference, and object selection) and perception objects (language modalities, kinesic modalities, tele-cinematic modalities, and contextual cues), resulting in varying degrees of perceptual differences across dimensions. By constructing a recipient-centered model of compliment perception, this study not only deepens our understanding of speech act perception but also contributes to the broader theoretical development of pragmatics.

言语行为感知越来越受到语用学领域的关注。然而，很少有研究系统地考察了多种社会因素是如何影响人们对赞美的看法的，探索其中的潜在机制的研究就更少了。为了解决这些差距，本研究调查了来自不同文化（瑞士、英国、中国）、性别和年龄组的接受者如何感知电视电影话语中的赞美，并提出了一个以接受者为中心的赞美感知模型。在实验和访谈的基础上，该研究招募了396名有效抽样的观众，在视觉和视听两种条件下评估三个赞美场景。结果表明，当从沉默模式过渡到视听模式时，所有三个社会变量（文化、性别和年龄）都会导致显著的感知变化。然而，在这两种情况下，只有文化导致显著的组间差异。从理论上讲，该研究表明，作为感知主体的接受者受到感知模式（视角、范围、文化参考和对象选择）和感知对象（语言模式、运动模式、远程电影模式和上下文线索）之间复杂的相互作用的影响，从而导致不同程度的感知维度差异。通过构建以接受者为中心的赞美感知模型，本研究不仅加深了我们对言语行为感知的理解，而且有助于更广泛的语用学理论的发展。

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Presupposition, assertion, and epistemic vigilance across development 贯穿发展的预设、断言和认知警惕

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.001

Giulia Giunta , Maria Roccaforte , Nausicaa Pouscoulous , Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri

This study investigates how linguistic framing—specifically, the use of presupposition versus assertion—affects the critical evaluation of incoming information across development. While presuppositions present content as taken for granted, assertions introduce information as new, leading to differing levels of epistemic scrutiny. Prior work has shown that adults are less likely to detect falsehoods when they are presupposed rather than asserted. This study explores whether similar framing effects operate in childhood, and whether children's sensitivity is modulated by Information Structure—specifically, topic–focus articulation. To this end, we tested three age groups (7-year-olds, 10-year-olds, and adults) using a truth-evaluation task involving short videos and spoken sentences that either asserted, focally presupposed, or topically presupposed false information. Results revealed that across all age groups, presuppositions increased the likelihood of accepting false statements as true, indicating their potential to mislead. However, this effect varied with age: compared to adults, the impact of topical presuppositions was especially pronounced in 10-year-olds, and this stronger effect was possibly present in 7-year-olds as well. The results have implications for theories of pragmatic development, linguistic models, and practices of epistemic vigilance, with practical relevance for understanding children's susceptibility to misleading or manipulative content.

本研究探讨了语言框架（特别是预设和断言的使用）如何影响整个发展过程中对传入信息的批判性评估。虽然预设呈现的内容是理所当然的，但断言引入的信息是新的，导致不同层次的认识审查。先前的研究表明，当谎言是预先假定的，而不是断言的时候，成年人不太可能发现谎言。本研究探讨了类似的框架效应是否在儿童时期起作用，以及儿童的敏感性是否受到信息结构特别是主题焦点发音的调节。为此，我们测试了三个年龄组（7岁、10岁和成年人），使用了一项真实性评估任务，该任务包括短视频和口语句子，这些句子要么断言，要么局部预设，要么局部预设虚假信息。结果显示，在所有年龄组中，预设增加了接受虚假陈述的可能性，这表明它们具有误导的潜力。然而，这种影响随年龄而变化：与成年人相比，局部预设的影响在10岁儿童中尤为明显，这种更强的影响可能也存在于7岁儿童中。研究结果对语用发展理论、语言模型和认知警惕实践具有启示意义，对理解儿童对误导性或操纵性内容的易感性具有实际意义。

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Corrigendum to “Appraising impoliteness on X: A case study of Isabel Díaz Ayuso” [J Pragmat 254 (2026) 1–15] “对X的不礼貌评价：以Isabel Ayuso为例”[J] .中文信息学报，2004(2):1-15。

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2026.02.004

Sergei Sikorskii, María Luisa Carrió-Pastor

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Tweeting war and peace: Linguistic analysis of pro- and anti-war messages on Russian Twitter 推特上的战争与和平：俄语推特上支持和反战信息的语言分析

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.007

Natalia Tyulina

This study examines messages on Russian Twitter posted during the first 18 months of the Russian war in Ukraine, analyzing them within the context of propaganda. Rather than assuming that propaganda aligns with one political side, we define one of its core attributes as discourse that seeks to change belief states through systematic cognitive shortcuts—simplified reasoning strategies that bypass critical intellectual evaluation. We adopt a comparative approach grounded in syntactic, lexical, and cognitive linguistic analysis, incorporating syntactic complexity metrics, lexical statistical measures, and cognitive frameworks from social psychology. Our findings indicate that pro-war rhetoric employs more obscure syntactic structures and appropriates lexical items originally used by opponents, effectively dehumanizing domestic dissenters, Ukrainians as a national group, and their allies. In contrast, anti-war discourse maintains directness and transparency, advocating for critical evaluation of information. The results suggest that pro-war narrative qualifies as propaganda, while anti-war narrative does not. Furthermore, the specific linguistic features we identify could aid in developing tools to detect and counter propaganda on social media, thereby enhancing societal resilience against dangerous narratives.

这项研究调查了俄罗斯在乌克兰战争的前18个月里在俄罗斯Twitter上发布的信息，并在宣传的背景下对它们进行了分析。与其假设宣传与某一方政治立场一致，我们将其核心属性之一定义为通过系统性认知捷径——绕过批判性智力评估的简化推理策略——寻求改变信念状态的话语。我们采用基于句法、词汇和认知语言学分析的比较方法，结合句法复杂性度量、词汇统计测量和社会心理学的认知框架。我们的研究结果表明，亲战修辞使用了更多模糊的句法结构，并使用了反对者原本使用的词汇，有效地使国内持不同政敌、乌克兰人作为一个民族群体及其盟友失去了人性。相反，反战话语保持了直接和透明，提倡对信息进行批判性评估。结果表明，支持战争的叙事符合宣传的条件，而反战的叙事则不符合。此外，我们确定的特定语言特征可以帮助开发工具来检测和反击社交媒体上的宣传，从而增强社会对危险叙事的抵御能力。

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The meanings of social meaning 社会意义的意义

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.005

Marina Terkourafi

In its most inclusive, "social meaning" is an umbrella term for inferences about the speaker, irrespective of how these inferences arise, are represented, or change over time/place. However, once these differences are heeded, what various authors have called "social meaning" turns out to share little beyond this general definition. An important difference stems from the observation that, while for Labov truth-conditional equivalence provided the opportunity for social meaning to arise, in experimental pragmatic accounts it is the difference in truth-conditional content that enables it. Consequently, the two types of social meaning are: a) represented differently (indexically vs. propositionally), b) constituted differently (via association/enregisterment vs. by Gricean inference), and c) differ in their arbitrariness or alienability, with the latter remaining stable across time/place, such that they cannot result in language change. Yet, in both cases, there are at least two competing variants and it is the use of one rather than the other that generates social meaning for the hearer capable of identifying the relevant alternatives. However, even this expanded view of social meaning fails to account for social meaning generated in the absence of any alternatives, when expressions devoid of denotational meaning perform a socially binding function for their users. To take in also these cases of social meaning par excellence, where the sole meaning of an expression is its social one, I propose a conceptualization of social meaning as input and as output to the inferential process that allows us to capture its essentially performative, multi-modal, and hearer-dependent nature.

最具包容性的是，“社会意义”是一个关于说话人的推断的总称，不管这些推断是如何产生的，是如何表现的，或者是如何随着时间/地点而变化的。然而，一旦注意到这些差异，不同作者所说的“社会意义”就会发现，除了这个一般定义之外，它们几乎没有什么共同之处。一个重要的区别源于这样的观察：对于Labov来说，真-条件等价为社会意义的产生提供了机会，而在实验语用学中，是真-条件内容的差异使之成为可能。因此，这两种类型的社会意义是：a)不同的表现形式（指标性vs.命题性），b)不同的构成方式（通过关联/注册vs. Gricean推理），以及c)其任意性或可让与性不同，后者在时间/地点上保持稳定，因此它们不会导致语言变化。然而，在这两种情况下，至少有两种相互竞争的变体，而对于能够识别相关替代词的听者来说，是使用其中一种而不是另一种来产生社会意义。然而，即使是这种扩展的社会意义观点也无法解释在没有任何替代方案的情况下产生的社会意义，当缺乏指称意义的表达对其用户执行社会约束功能时。为了更好地理解这些社会意义，其中表达的唯一意义是它的社会意义，我提出了一个社会意义的概念化，作为推理过程的输入和输出，使我们能够捕捉其本质上的表演，多模态和听者依赖的本质。

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Compliments in telephone and chat counselling 电话和聊天咨询中的赞美

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.009

Maartje Roodzant , Bogdana Humă , Wyke Stommel , Marie Rickert

Nowadays, counselling is offered through various media, including chat, e-mail, and telephone. Across these media, counsellors strive to build a supportive relationship with their clients, while also upholding the service's institutional goals of providing information and advice. One resource for counsellors to achieve both outcomes is complimenting clients. While existing research highlights the contribution of compliments in various institutional settings for relational and interactional purposes, less is known about their use specifically within counselling contexts. This study aims to shed light on the use of compliments in counselling, zooming in on potential differences between chat and telephone counselling. We employed conversation analysis to examine counsellors' compliments in 57 chat logs and 40 recordings of telephone calls from a Dutch alcohol and drugs information service. Building on work showing that the affordances of different communication media shape the interactional unfolding of counselling sessions, we highlight how counsellors' deployment of compliments relates to such affordances, including medium-specific turn-taking systems and the (un)availability of paralinguistic resources. Our findings reveal that the affordances of chat enable counsellors to deliver specific types of compliments in a manner that does not interrupt the sequential progression of the session. Thus, we challenge the view that chat is less suitable for building a supportive relationship and therefore a less suitable medium for counselling.

现在，咨询是通过各种媒体提供的，包括聊天、电子邮件和电话。通过这些媒体，咨询师努力与他们的客户建立一种支持的关系，同时也坚持提供信息和建议的服务机构目标。对咨询师来说，实现这两种结果的一个资源是赞美客户。虽然现有的研究强调了赞美在各种机构环境中对关系和互动目的的贡献，但对它们在咨询环境中的具体用途知之甚少。这项研究的目的是阐明在咨询中赞美的使用，放大聊天咨询和电话咨询之间的潜在差异。我们采用对话分析的方法，从荷兰一家酒精和毒品信息服务机构的57份聊天记录和40份电话录音中，对咨询师的赞美进行了分析。基于研究表明，不同传播媒介的能力塑造了咨询课程的互动展开，我们强调了辅导员对赞美的部署如何与这种能力相关，包括特定媒介的轮流系统和（非）辅助语言资源的可用性。我们的研究结果表明，聊天的辅助功能使咨询师能够以一种不会打断会话顺序的方式提供特定类型的赞美。因此，我们挑战这样一种观点，即聊天不太适合建立支持性关系，因此不太适合作为咨询的媒介。

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The use of prosody and facial expressions in irony comprehension by Mandarin-speaking preschoolers 汉语学龄前儿童反语理解中韵律和面部表情的运用

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.013

Fuyan Zhu, Qianxi Yu, Shanpeng Li, Ping Tang

This study investigated Mandarin-speaking preschoolers’ ability to use prosody and facial expressions to comprehend verbal irony. Specifically, it examined whether these children could use prosodic and facial cues alone, and whether they could consistently integrate these cues with context. A total of 110 Mandarin-speaking 4–7-year-olds and 23 adult controls completed a story comprehension task. Participants first heard ironic remarks accompanied by ironic prosody and facial expressions, without any preceding context, and their accuracy in comprehending these remarks was evaluated. They then heard remarks with preceding ironic context and accompanying prosody and facial expressions that were either congruent or incongruent with the context, and their comprehension accuracy was compared to that in a context-only condition. The results showed that without context, only 6–7-year-olds achieved above-chance accuracy using prosodic and facial cues alone, while 4–5-year-olds did not. With context available, 6–7-year-olds, like adults, consistently integrated prosodic and facial cues with context, showing increased accuracy when cues were context-congruent but decreased accuracy when context-incongruent, whereas 4–5-year-olds did not show such patterns. These findings indicate that age 6 represents a crucial developmental milestone toward adult-like use of prosody and facial expressions for irony comprehension in Mandarin-speaking children.

本研究调查了说普通话的学龄前儿童使用韵律和面部表情来理解言语反讽的能力。具体来说，它检查了这些孩子是否能够单独使用韵律和面部线索，以及他们是否能够始终将这些线索与上下文结合起来。共有110名说普通话的4 - 7岁儿童和23名成人对照完成了一个故事理解任务。参与者首先听到带有讽刺韵律和面部表情的讽刺言论，没有任何背景，然后评估他们理解这些言论的准确性。然后，他们听到了带有讽刺背景的评论，并伴随着与上下文一致或不一致的韵律和面部表情，他们的理解准确性与只有上下文条件的人进行了比较。结果表明，在没有语境的情况下，只有6 - 7岁的孩子单独使用韵律和面部线索达到了高于机会的准确性，而4 - 5岁的孩子则没有。在有上下文的情况下，6 - 7岁的孩子和成年人一样，始终将韵律和面部线索与上下文结合起来，当线索与上下文一致时，准确性提高，而当线索与上下文不一致时，准确性降低，而4 - 5岁的孩子则没有表现出这种模式。这些发现表明，6岁是普通话儿童发展到像成人一样使用韵律和面部表情来理解反语的关键里程碑。

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Meaning is change 意义就是改变

IF 1.7 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.006

Penelope Eckert

The study of social meaning requires that we transcend the boundary that linguistics has carefully erected and maintained between language and the social world. This begins by understanding that the role of language is to bring about change, and that social meaning lies in the subjectivity that underlies, and gives meaning to, this change.

对社会意义的研究要求我们超越语言学在语言和社会世界之间精心建立和维护的界限。要做到这一点，首先要理解语言的作用是带来变化，而社会意义在于主观性，主观性是这种变化的基础，并赋予这种变化以意义。

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Style shifts into an informal speech style in L1-L2 Korean interactions 在L1-L2的韩语互动中，风格转变为非正式的演讲风格

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.008

Devon Renfroe, Khaled Al Masaeed

This study investigates how speech styles in Korean are negotiated in real time in interactions between first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers. Responding to calls for work in L2 pragmatics to go beyond the use of DCTs and role plays, we report on data taken from elicited conversations in Korean and metapragmatic interviews with two L2 Korean speakers and three L1 Korean speakers. Drawing on interactional sociolinguistics (IS) (Gumperz, 1982), quantitative analysis of speech style distribution as well as line-by-line analysis of speech style shifts were utilized to examine how speakers orient to this potential conversational ‘trouble.’ Quantitative analysis of the interactions revealed marked quantitative differences between each pair and, particularly, each speaker's orientation to the interaction as either conversational facilitator or passive interactional participant. Line-by-line analysis of moments in which the L2 speakers shift into an informal speech style were analyzed and revealed three strategies employed by both L1 and L2 speakers: (1) self-initiated self-repair, (2) metapragmatic commentary, and (3) style mirroring. As the number of Korean language learners continues to increase (Lusin et al., 2023), this study provides a timely perspective on not only what L2 Korean speakers know about Korean speech styles, but what actually happens in L1-L2 interactions.

本研究探讨了在第一语言（L1）和第二语言（L2）使用者之间的实时互动中，韩语的语言风格是如何协商的。为了响应第二语言语用学研究超越dct和角色扮演的呼声，我们报告了从引出的韩语对话和对两名第二语言韩语使用者和三名第一语言韩语使用者的元语用访谈中获取的数据。利用互动社会语言学（IS）（Gumperz, 1982），对语言风格分布的定量分析以及对语言风格变化的逐行分析被用来研究说话者如何适应这种潜在的会话“麻烦”。“对互动的定量分析揭示了每一对之间显著的数量差异，特别是每个说话者对互动的取向，无论是作为对话促进者还是被动的互动参与者。”对二语说话者转变为非正式语言风格的时刻进行逐行分析，揭示了二语和母语说话者采用的三种策略：(1)自我发起的自我修复，(2)元语用评论，(3)风格镜像。随着韩语学习者的数量不断增加（Lusin et al., 2023），这项研究不仅及时地揭示了第二语言韩语使用者对韩语语言风格的了解，而且还揭示了在L2 -L2互动中实际发生了什么。

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IF 1.7 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.002

Laura Portolés

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