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The Spanish organizers por un lado, por otro lado and discursive overmarking: An experimental study

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.004

Nadal Sanchis Laura , Bello Viruega Iria , Mañas Navarrete Iban

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From words to multimodalities: Compliment perceptions across lingua cultures

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.006

Fang Xie

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Payment offers, suggestions to share expenses and payment negotiation sequences on initial dates in Germany and the United Kingdom

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.016

Anne Barron

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Pragmatic functions of question tags in Indian and Sri Lankan English

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.005

Julia Degenhardt

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“Such large appetites, such shallow pockets......!!!!!!!!!”: Rapport-challenging practices in businesses’ responses to TripAdvisor reviews

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.003

Christopher Hopkinson

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Can ChatGPT recognize impoliteness? An exploratory study of the pragmatic awareness of a large language model

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.001

Marta Andersson, Dan McIntyre

{"title":"Can ChatGPT recognize impoliteness? An exploratory study of the pragmatic awareness of a large language model","authors":"Marta Andersson, Dan McIntyre","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The practical potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) depends in part on their ability to accurately interpret pragmatic functions. In this article, we assess ChatGPT 3.5’s ability to identify and interpret linguistic impoliteness across a series of text examples. We provided ChatGPT 3.5 with instances of implicational, metalinguistic, and explicit impoliteness, alongside sarcasm, unpalatable questions, erotic talk, and unmarked impolite linguistic behavior, asking (i) whether impoliteness was present, and (ii) its source. We then further tested the bot’s ability to identify impoliteness by asking it to remove it from a series of text examples. ChatGPT 3.5 generally performed well, recognizing both conventionalized lexicogrammatical forms and context-sensitive cases. However, it struggled to account for all impoliteness. In some cases, the model was more sensitive to potentially offensive expressions than humans are, as a result of its design, training and/or inability to sufficiently determine the situational context of the examples. We also found that the model had difficulties sometimes in interpreting impoliteness generated through implicature. Given that impoliteness is a complex and multi-functional phenomenon, we consider our findings to contribute to increasing public awareness not only about the use of AI technologies but also about improving their safety, transparency, and reliability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"239 ","pages":"Pages 16-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Secondary grammaticalization and subjectification: A case study of Korean conditional, concessive, and deontic modal eya

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.015

Minju Kim

{"title":"Secondary grammaticalization and subjectification: A case study of Korean conditional, concessive, and deontic modal eya","authors":"Minju Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using diachronic corpus data, this study investigates the developmental journey of the Korean connective <em>eya</em>, which denotes conditional, concessive, and deontic modal meanings. The study proposes that <em>eya</em> consists of the connective <em>e</em> ‘and (then)’, ‘after’ and the focus particle <em>ya</em>, which can be read as ‘only’ or ‘even’ depending on context. At first, focus <em>ya</em> with the meaning of ‘only’ was attached to connective <em>e</em> ‘after’ to emphasize the temporal meaning. Their combination <em>eya</em> ‘only after’, serving as temporal background for the following main clause, grammaticalized into conditional <em>eya</em> ‘only if’. Subsequently, conditional <em>eya</em> ‘only if’ developed into concessive conditional <em>eya</em> ‘even if’ by occurring with extreme values, and this eventually became concessive <em>eya</em> ‘even though’. In addition, this study offers counter-evidence to recent proposals that secondary grammaticalization does not involve subjectification or even leads to the loss of subjective or expressive meanings. As in the case of <em>eya</em>, concessive markers often emerge from existing grammatical markers, and their grammaticalization usually involves increased subjectivity (e.g., speaker's surprise at an event countering expectations), rather than its loss.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 86-100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143422071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.02.002

Alexander Holmberg, Naoko Taguchi

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(Re)categorizing lexical encapsulation: An experimental approach

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.017

Óscar Loureda Lamas , Mathis Teucher , Celia Hernández Pérez , Adriana Cruz Rubio , Carlos Gelormini-Lezama

{"title":"(Re)categorizing lexical encapsulation: An experimental approach","authors":"Óscar Loureda Lamas , Mathis Teucher , Celia Hernández Pérez , Adriana Cruz Rubio , Carlos Gelormini-Lezama","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Anaphoric encapsulation is a discursive mechanism by which a noun phrase recovers an explicature. This eye tracking study addresses the question of whether categorizing versus recategorizing encapsulation lead to different processing patterns. Results show that (1) encapsulating noun phrases are cognitively prominent areas, (2) recategorization is never less effortful than categorization, (3) the prominence and instructional asymmetry of the encapsulating noun phrase with respect to the antecedent is greater in cases of recategorizing encapsulation. Overall, encapsulating noun phrases initiate a complex cognitive operation due to the nature of their antecedent, which includes both encoded and inferred information. A distinctive processing pattern emerges for recategorizing encapsulating noun phrases: greater local efforts, due to the introduction of new information, do not result in higher total reading times.</div><div>Beyond the introductory section, the structure of this study is as follows: Section 2 discusses the properties of categorizing and recategorizing mechanisms. Section 3 reviews experimental research on nominal anaphoric encapsulation in Spanish. Section 4 outlines the key aspects of the experimental design and execution. Finally, sections 5 and 6 present the results of the experiment and offer a theoretical discussion of the findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"239 ","pages":"Pages 4-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When is it legitimate to cancel a potential scalar implicature? The roles of the Question Under Discussion and optimal relevance

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.014

Begoña Vicente

{"title":"When is it legitimate to cancel a potential scalar implicature? The roles of the Question Under Discussion and optimal relevance","authors":"Begoña Vicente","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the conditions for legitimate speaker cancellation of a potential scalar implicature, with the broader aim of gaining a better understanding of when and why a scalar inference is derived as part of the speaker’s meaning. It brings under scrutiny Mayol and Castroviejo’s (2013) proposal in terms of a Question Under Discussion Constraint on Speaker Cancellation and shows that despite its merits, it unduly restricts the possibilities available to speakers for felicitous cancellation of a potential scalar implicature. This is because the concept of relevance in terms of focus congruent questions that get partially/completely answered on which the authors rely fails to integrate contextual assumptions that will determine the kind of interpretation that the scalar containing utterance will receive. And also, because in their account the role that focal stress plays is too strongly associated with the triggering of a scalar inference. I show how a more broad-base cognitive pragmatics model like Relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995) avoids the problems that their approach faces by allowing context accessibility to play a key role in the derivation of cognitive effects, and giving prosodic prominence a facilitating role in processing without directly linking it to any specific type of effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 74-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143149403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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