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Exploring the fuzzy boundaries between newsmarks and change-of-state tokens in High German and Low German talk-in-interaction – A variational-pragmatic and interactional perspective 探究高德语和低德语互动对话中新闻标记和状态变化标记之间的模糊界限——一个变分语用和互动的视角

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.004

Kathrin Weber , Katharina König

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The effect of online methods on epistemic inference and scalar implicature 在线方法对认知推理和标量蕴涵的影响

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.006

Alan Bale , Maho Takahashi , Miguel Mejia , David Barner

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Apologies in Mandarin Chinese conversation: Lexical format and the reflexive construction of ‘apologizeables’ 汉语对话中的道歉：词汇形式与“道歉”的自反构造

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.001

Guodong Yu , Chase Wesley Raymond , Yaxin Wu

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Its prominence is her prominence: On the relationship between propositional and individual anaphoric reference 它的突出是她的突出：论命题与个体回指指称的关系

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.013

Timo Buchholz , Jet Hoek , Klaus von Heusinger

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Deciphering the electrophysiological signature of discourse connectives 语篇连接词的电生理特征解读

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.009

Cecile Larralde, Ira Noveck

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Different ways of deriving majority judgements: An experimental study of Chinese dabufen 多数判断的不同方法：汉语大不分的实验研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.005

Yuli Feng, Lei Chu

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Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning 超越刻板印象：潜在社会意义的认知能力

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014

Inbal Kuperwasser , Einat Shetreet

{"title":"Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning","authors":"Inbal Kuperwasser , Einat Shetreet","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>‘Social meaning’ refers to a relation between social identity and linguistic features, and often concerns stereotypical knowledge. In this study, we propose this relation can also be mediated by cognitive abilities, as these are affected by social context and are required in meaning processing. As a case-study, we tested the negative effects of social outgroup (through political affiliation) and Theory of Mind skills (ToM) on the processing of a highly-regularized pragmatic phenomenon (scalar implicatures) in Hebrew and English speakers. First, we replicated previous findings showing a decrease in the rates of pragmatic responses for an outgroup speaker compared to a control speaker with no group affiliation. More importantly, we showed that this effect is associated with ToM abilities, such that individuals with lower baseline ToM abilities in the outgroup condition were less likely to give pragmatic responses than individuals with similar ToM abilities in the control condition. This suggests a role for ToM in mediating the negative effect in the outgroup condition, therefore supporting the expansion of social meaning to more general, non-stereotype-specific, cases where social characteristics affect pragmatic interpretation, through the mediation of social cognition abilities. Our results highlight that social meaning is ingrained in pragmatic processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"242 ","pages":"Pages 1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143860673","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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Grammaticalization and social meaning in the Japanese causative-benefactive construction: Celebrities crafting connections with their audience 日语使-益结构中的语法化和社会意义：名人与听众建立联系

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.012

Kimiyo Matsui

{"title":"Grammaticalization and social meaning in the Japanese causative-benefactive construction: Celebrities crafting connections with their audience","authors":"Kimiyo Matsui","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how semantics and pragmatics interact in the process of grammaticalization to generate social meaning in the Japanese causative-benefactive construction, <em>-(s)ase-te</em> <em>itadak-u</em>. The construction’s original meaning is that one humbly receives permission from a respected party (a specific causative benefactor) to do something beneficial to oneself. It has, however, grammaticalized to develop synchronic, contextual variation, as shown in the data for this study, taken from a celebrity TV talk show. From the perspective of interpersonal pragmatics, this study argues that celebrities in this talk show employ the construction to express involvement with their audience when they describe their own actions and, thereby, project a positive celebrity persona. This social meaning of involvement stems from two aspects of grammaticalization: semantic generalization, which decreases the specificity of the original causative benefactor to various degrees, and semantic persistence, which maintains the speaker’s sense of humility and benefit. In the most prominent use of the construction in the data, this allows speakers to involve their audience as non-specific, highly generalized senses of benefactors who somehow facilitate the speaker’s actions and to express humility concerning these actions and gratitude for the opportunity to perform them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"241 ","pages":"Pages 130-143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143855999","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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Egyptian advice in casual conversations: A deep dive with corpus-based insights 随意对话中的埃及建议：深入了解基于语料库的见解

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.002

Rania Al-Sabbagh

{"title":"Egyptian advice in casual conversations: A deep dive with corpus-based insights","authors":"Rania Al-Sabbagh","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent studies suggest that Egyptians perceive advice-giving as social cooperation and solidarity, deeply rooted in their collectivist culture. These studies indicate that Egyptians tend to employ direct advice more frequently than individuals in individualistic cultures, where advice-giving is often regarded as face-threatening. However, these conclusions have primarily been drawn from role-play scenarios and multiple-choice questionnaires, which may not fully capture the cultural and linguistic nuances of Egyptian Arabic. This study builds on previous research by analyzing the CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic corpus, a collection of unscripted phone conversations among friends and family, to provide a more nuanced understanding. The findings confirm previous conclusions, revealing that direct advice constitutes 58.3 % of cases, with no significant influence from interlocutors' social status or advice level of imposition. Notably, 15.5 % of this direct advice consists of emotionally supportive phrases such as “don't worry” and “take care” rather than practical guidance. A distinctive form of hedged advice also emerged, marked by hedging imperatives, such as “try” (e.g., “try to find reasons” instead of “find reasons”). Additionally, the corpus highlights how indirect advice is embedded within other speech acts, including requests, prayers, opinions, questions, and wishes. The results, which align with prior conversation analysis research on advice in British and American cultures, suggest that Egyptians exhibit similar behaviors when giving advice. This indicates that conversational expectations, beyond the collectivist-individualist cultural dichotomy, play a critical role in shaping advice-giving strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"241 ","pages":"Pages 116-129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143851490","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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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.015

Christina Hodeib

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