{"title":"“Slurs and thick terms: When language encodes values”","authors":"Bianca Cepollaro","doi":"10.1075/pc.00026.cep","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00026.cep","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":" 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135285708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Viviana Masia, Davide Garassino, Nicola Brocca, Louis de Saussure
Abstract This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered tweets produced by Italian politicians to native speakers so as to assess how easily they could retrieve the presupposed content of two presupposition triggers (definite descriptions and change of state verbs), as opposed to their explicit paraphrase, by answering verification questions. Results showed that content presupposed by change of state verbs was likely to receive more attention than content conveyed by definite descriptions; this could possibly be due to the greater effort involved in mentally representing the event taken for granted by the predicates. Definite descriptions, on the contrary, seem to instruct to a shallower processing modality, which means that their content is processed less attentively or in a ‘good-enough’ way.
{"title":"Recalling presupposed information","authors":"Viviana Masia, Davide Garassino, Nicola Brocca, Louis de Saussure","doi":"10.1075/pc.22011.mas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.22011.mas","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered tweets produced by Italian politicians to native speakers so as to assess how easily they could retrieve the presupposed content of two presupposition triggers (definite descriptions and change of state verbs), as opposed to their explicit paraphrase, by answering verification questions. Results showed that content presupposed by change of state verbs was likely to receive more attention than content conveyed by definite descriptions; this could possibly be due to the greater effort involved in mentally representing the event taken for granted by the predicates. Definite descriptions, on the contrary, seem to instruct to a shallower processing modality, which means that their content is processed less attentively or in a ‘good-enough’ way.","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":" 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135241256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, I report on a quasi-case study of U.S. presidential identity based on Donald J. Trump’s presidency, demonstrating that Trump is considered by the American public as an antithesis of presidentiality. I then discuss the insights from this study on several critical issues that face identity studies, an expansive area of investigation which has attracted the attention of students from a diverse range of disciplines. I demonstrate that identity is a set of attributes the formation of which is based on the mission of the group and the expected behaviors of members of that group, that the construction of identity is largely a bottom-up and gradual process, and that identity is both preexisting and emergent.
{"title":"Identity studies and identity construction","authors":"Rong Chen","doi":"10.1075/pc.19025.che","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19025.che","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, I report on a quasi-case study of U.S. presidential identity based on Donald J. Trump’s presidency,\u0000 demonstrating that Trump is considered by the American public as an antithesis of presidentiality. I then discuss the insights from this\u0000 study on several critical issues that face identity studies, an expansive area of investigation which has attracted the attention of\u0000 students from a diverse range of disciplines. I demonstrate that identity is a set of attributes the formation of which is based on the\u0000 mission of the group and the expected behaviors of members of that group, that the construction of identity is largely a bottom-up and\u0000 gradual process, and that identity is both preexisting and emergent.","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43297883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Motivation has an effect on the rate and success of second language (L2) learning. However, little is known about its role in students’ levels of L2 pragmatic awareness. This study investigated whether and to what extent students’ L2 motivation influences their pragmatic awareness. A total of 498 Chinese university students completed a two-part web-based survey (an appropriateness judgement task and a motivation questionnaire), of whom 12 were subsequently interviewed. The quantitative results show that pragmatic awareness correlates positively with attitudes towards the L2 community and the intended learning efforts. Moreover, a model combining the intended learning efforts, attitudes towards the L2 community and attitudes towards learning English can significantly predict pragmatic awareness. The analysis of semi-structured interviews reveals a mismatch between students’ immediate needs when learning English and outcomes of pragmatic acquisition, which may contribute to the absent correlation between overall levels of L2 motivation and pragmatic awareness.
{"title":"Pragmatic awareness and second language learning motivation","authors":"not yet matched, W. Ren","doi":"10.1075/pc.19022.yan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19022.yan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Motivation has an effect on the rate and success of second language (L2) learning. However, little is known about its role\u0000 in students’ levels of L2 pragmatic awareness. This study investigated whether and to what extent students’ L2 motivation influences their\u0000 pragmatic awareness. A total of 498 Chinese university students completed a two-part web-based survey (an appropriateness judgement task and\u0000 a motivation questionnaire), of whom 12 were subsequently interviewed. The quantitative results show that pragmatic awareness correlates\u0000 positively with attitudes towards the L2 community and the intended learning efforts. Moreover, a model combining the intended learning\u0000 efforts, attitudes towards the L2 community and attitudes towards learning English can significantly predict pragmatic awareness. The\u0000 analysis of semi-structured interviews reveals a mismatch between students’ immediate needs when learning English and outcomes of pragmatic\u0000 acquisition, which may contribute to the absent correlation between overall levels of L2 motivation and pragmatic awareness.","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43550412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Within cognitive and developmental psychology, it is commonly argued that perception is the basis for object concepts. According to this view, sensory experiences would translate into concepts thanks to the recognition, correlation and integration of physical attributes. Once attributes are integrated into general patterns, subjects would become able to parse objects into categories. In this article, we critically review the three epistemological perspectives according to which it can be claimed that object concepts depend on perception:state non-conceptualism, content non-conceptualism, andcontent conceptualism. We show that the three perspectives have problems that make perception inadequate as a conceptual basis. We suggest that the inquiry about the origin and development of object concepts can benefit from a pragmatic perspective that considers objects’cultural functionsas a conceptual foundation. We address this possibility from the theoretical framework of thepragmatics of the object, considering the importance of objects’functional permanence.
{"title":"On perception as the basis for object concepts","authors":"not yet matched, Cintia Rodríguez","doi":"10.1075/pc.19027.ale","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19027.ale","url":null,"abstract":"Within cognitive and developmental psychology, it is commonly argued that perception is the basis for object concepts. According to this view, sensory experiences would translate into concepts thanks to the recognition, correlation and integration of physical attributes. Once attributes are integrated into general patterns, subjects would become able to parse objects into categories. In this article, we critically review the three epistemological perspectives according to which it can be claimed that object concepts depend on perception:state non-conceptualism, content non-conceptualism, andcontent conceptualism. We show that the three perspectives have problems that make perception inadequate as a conceptual basis. We suggest that the inquiry about the origin and development of object concepts can benefit from a pragmatic perspective that considers objects’cultural functionsas a conceptual foundation. We address this possibility from the theoretical framework of thepragmatics of the object, considering the importance of objects’functional permanence.","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47822032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Noveck (2018): Experimental Pragmatics. The Making of a Cognitive Science","authors":"C. Pléh","doi":"10.1075/pc.19023.ple","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19023.ple","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46769149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jointly coordinated affective activities are fundamental for social relationships. This study investigates a naturally occurring interaction between two women who produced reciprocal emotional stances towards similar past experiences. Adopting a microanalytic approach, we describe how the participants re-enact their past experiences through different but aligning synchronized gestures. This embodied dialogue evolves into affective flooding, in which participants co-produce their body memories of pulling down window blinds to block out sunshine. We show how the participants live this moment intercorporeally and how multiple timescales are tied together in gesture, which is both an incarnation of body history and a novel expression of it. Thus, collaborative gesturing is a resource for experiencing together emotions re-enacted from body memories. Contributing to our understanding of the intercorporeality of human action, we provide an empirical investigation into how emotions and multiple timescales are nested in cooperative gestures. Data are in Finnish with English translations.
{"title":"The intercorporeality of closing a curtain","authors":"not yet matched, J. S. Philipsen","doi":"10.1075/pc.19030.kat","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19030.kat","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Jointly coordinated affective activities are fundamental for social relationships. This study investigates a naturally\u0000 occurring interaction between two women who produced reciprocal emotional stances towards similar past experiences. Adopting a microanalytic\u0000 approach, we describe how the participants re-enact their past experiences through different but aligning synchronized gestures. This\u0000 embodied dialogue evolves into affective flooding, in which participants co-produce their body memories of pulling down window blinds to\u0000 block out sunshine. We show how the participants live this moment intercorporeally and how multiple timescales are tied together in gesture,\u0000 which is both an incarnation of body history and a novel expression of it. Thus, collaborative gesturing is a resource for experiencing\u0000 together emotions re-enacted from body memories. Contributing to our understanding of the intercorporeality of human action, we provide an\u0000 empirical investigation into how emotions and multiple timescales are nested in cooperative gestures. Data are in Finnish with English\u0000 translations.","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41554699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The focus of this paper is a possible Siberian link with the Na-Dene Languages, based on cognitive lexical semantics. Dene-Yeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of Central Siberia and the Na-Dene languages of North-Western North America (Campbell 2011; Trombetti 1923; Vajda 2010, 2011, 2018). The paper connects semantic universals, Ket and Dene folklore, and also comparative historical linguistic research. In analyzing a group of cognates, the paper’s aim is to discuss the cultural, cognitive and pragmatic reasons that enabled these cognates to survive for several thousand years. Our main point is that factors such as the relative importance of linguistic signs in a language community, lingual conservatism of semantic universals and the distinctiveness of its referents, probable frequency with which these words were used, and their cultural symbolism in relatively similar environments significantly contributed to their survival in ethnic groups belonging to the proposed language family. Our cross-disciplinary study helps us identify the essential place of eco-ethnic material in interpreting cross-continental similarities and emphasizes the integrative role of culture. It will be argued that the eco-ethnic lexicon reflected by the Dene-Yeniseian cognates reveals several thousand years of diachronic cognitive processes.
{"title":"Siberian-American cognitive and cultural interface through eco-ethnic lexicon","authors":"S. Gural, A. Kim-Maloney, G. Petrova","doi":"10.1075/pc.19007.kim","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.19007.kim","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The focus of this paper is a possible Siberian link with the Na-Dene Languages, based on cognitive lexical semantics. Dene-Yeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of Central Siberia and the Na-Dene languages of North-Western North America (Campbell 2011; Trombetti 1923; Vajda 2010, 2011, 2018). The paper connects semantic universals, Ket and Dene folklore, and also comparative historical linguistic research. In analyzing a group of cognates, the paper’s aim is to discuss the cultural, cognitive and pragmatic reasons that enabled these cognates to survive for several thousand years. Our main point is that factors such as the relative importance of linguistic signs in a language community, lingual conservatism of semantic universals and the distinctiveness of its referents, probable frequency with which these words were used, and their cultural symbolism in relatively similar environments significantly contributed to their survival in ethnic groups belonging to the proposed language family. Our cross-disciplinary study helps us identify the essential place of eco-ethnic material in interpreting cross-continental similarities and emphasizes the integrative role of culture. It will be argued that the eco-ethnic lexicon reflected by the Dene-Yeniseian cognates reveals several thousand years of diachronic cognitive processes.","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":"26 1","pages":"39-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43454813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Pragmatics and its interfaces as related to the expression of intention”","authors":"I. Kecskés","doi":"10.1075/pc.00009.int","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00009.int","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45741,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics & Cognition","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45305970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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