What Does It Mean to Be “Utterly Content”? Semantic Prosody Impacts Nuanced Inferences Beyond Just Valence

IF 1.2 4区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
David J. Hauser, James Hillman
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Abstract

Words have semantic prosody when they collocate with positive/negative concepts in natural language. Semantic prosody encourages positive/negative evaluations. However, it is unknown whether semantic prosody affects inferences of other attributes aside from positivity/negativity. Semantic prosody likely causes people to expect the valence of what comes next, and expectation violations occur when authors have ironic intent and when authors lack fluency with a language. Four studies investigated whether semantically prosodic expectations impact specific inferences about authors. Participants perceived a writer as having greater ironic intent when the writer used a sentence with a semantically prosodic word that mismatched with the valence of adjacent words (Studies 1, 3, and 4). Additionally, in line with English as foreign language pedagogy, the same manipulation caused participants to perceive a writer as being less fluent in English (Studies 2, 3, and 4). Thus, semantic prosody generates expectations that affect nuanced inferences.
完全满足 "意味着什么?语义前奏影响的细微推断不仅仅是语价
当词语在自然语言中与正面/负面概念搭配时,它们就具有语义前置性。语义前置鼓励正面/负面评价。然而,语义拟声是否会影响除积极/消极之外的其他属性的推断,目前还不得而知。语义拟声可能会使人们对接下来的内容的价值产生预期,而当作者具有讽刺意图和作者缺乏语言流畅性时,就会出现违反预期的情况。四项研究调查了语义前音预期是否会影响对作者的特定推断。当作者使用的句子中的语义前置词与相邻词的价位不匹配时,受试者会认为作者具有更大的讽刺意图(研究 1、3 和 4)。此外,根据英语作为外语的教学法,同样的操作会使受试者认为作者的英语不够流利(研究 2、3 和 4)。因此,语义拟声会产生影响细微推断的预期。
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Social Cognition
Social Cognition PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
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期刊介绍: An excellent resource for researchers as well as students, Social Cognition features reports on empirical research, self-perception, self-concept, social neuroscience, person-memory integration, social schemata, the development of social cognition, and the role of affect in memory and perception. Three broad concerns define the scope of the journal: - The processes underlying the perception, memory, and judgment of social stimuli - The effects of social, cultural, and affective factors on the processing of information The behavioral and interpersonal consequences of cognitive processes.
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