Showing papers in "Journal of Pragmatics in 1993"

TL;DR: This paper studied how recipients and current speakers rely on "okay" pivotally at or near transition/opportunity spaces: Decidedly in response to prior talk, yet also in transitionally relevant (state of readiness) ways via shifts/ movements to next-positioned matters.

TL;DR: This paper found that the two groups use largely different politeness strategies: the American English speakers' strategies are mostly motivated by Leech's Agreement Maxim, whereas the Chinese speaker's strategies are motivated by his Modesty Maxim.

TL;DR: In Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory, the discourse marker well can be seen as a signpost which constrains the interpretation process and the concomitant background selection as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This article argued that non-cooperative texts such as jokes convey information through their presuppositional basis, rather than their illocutionary value, through metamessages and suppressions of the violation.

TL;DR: The authors found that commiseration occurs almost as frequently among strangers as it does among friends and acquaintances, while indirect complaints and commiserative responses are more frequent among interlocutors of extreme social distance.

TL;DR: The authors compare evidence from New Zealand women's and men's talk regarding amount of speech, interruptions, the use of pragmatic particles and the distribution of apologies and compliments to support an argument that women are ideal speaker-hearers.

TL;DR: The authors examined the strategies used by male and female Peruvian Spanish speakers when participating in two speech events: making a request for a service and responding to it, and looked at cross-gender similarities and/or differences.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the restriction on NPs in focus position in existential sentences is a result of the presentational function of such sentences, rather than a constraint to be stated in semantic or syntactic terms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overall review of the theory of perlocution since its formulation by Austin in 1962, including the notions of Multiplicity Thesis, the Infinity Thesis and the Causation Thesis.

TL;DR: The authors argue that Sperber and Wilson's concept of relevance is but a particular instance of the ordinary English term "relevant" and that the technical sense which they have introduced is superfluous, counter-productive, counterintuitive, and stands in the way of an appreciation of the real value of the work they have accomplished.

TL;DR: This article identified and analyzed action patterns (discourse strategies) which speakers use in requesting and giving advice in the context of radio advice programs and found that advice givers seem to have three major goals: to help callers clarify their problems, to help them explore their options and to offer direction, usually regarding some action to be taken in the future.

TL;DR: The meaning of and everything as mentioned in this paper is non-compositional and it can be seen as a set-marking tag that can be used to express an R-implicature to the effect that the proposition in question is true not only of some other members of the set, but also of all members.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of emblems which can be associated with a variety of the Catalan language are described and analyzed from a pragmatic viewpoint and some factors which participate in the classification of the items compiled and which contribute to their cultural nature.

TL;DR: In this article, the negative aspect of argumentation has been studied, where an argument is used to argue against the conclusion of another argument, and the argument is accepted only if the reasons it provides seem plausible, relevant, oriented in favor of the conclusion and sufficient to support it.

TL;DR: Turn-taking in political meetings has been studied in this paper, where Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson studied the organization of turn-taking, and proposed a model that is both context and content independent.

TL;DR: The authors define prototypical conditionality with respect to two parameters: (i) the presence of if, which signals non-assertiveness of the assumption in its scope, and (ii) the syntactic frame if p, then q, which accounts for there being a semantic or pragmatic relation between p and q, such that q cannot be asserted without a prior assumption of p.

TL;DR: It is shown that the model of standard communication can explain non-standard uses of language without special adaptation, and can account for a variety of linguistic phenomena which are often neglected in formal treatments of dialogue.

TL;DR: The authors found that different groups of respondents (British/Chinese and tutor/postgraduate student) had significantly different conceptions of typical power and distance relations of the tutor-student role relationship, and that nationality had a particularly marked effect.

TL;DR: The authors investigates whether the same assumptions are at work when we use irony (e.g., by saying "Good job" to comment ironically on an action we do not approve of, or by using phrases like "Isn't it ironic that…" to comment on a situation perceived as ironic.

TL;DR: The authors report on a sociolinguistic analysis of a police interview with Kelvin Condren, a speaker of Aboriginal English, which is a "confession" of murder for which Condren received a life sentence. But he alleges that he is innocent and that the ‘confession' is not in his words.

TL;DR: The authors investigate the turn-taking and questioning strategies of two prominent media personalities (a woman and a man) reveal differing outcomes according to the gendered context, and conclude that women are more comfortable in private forms and contexts of discourse owing to their cooperative, facilitative nature, etc.

TL;DR: The authors assessed pragmatic errors and how they affect the collaborative process of conversation and found that these higher-level pragmatic errors were compared to lower-level phonological and lexical errors, and that pragmatic errors must be examined in a collaborative context for their effects to be properly evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the usage of the Japanese nominal "tautological" construction X wa X is compared with the usages of two other formally similar constructions: X ga X and X mo X.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward the hypothesis that no-pas in Catalan is a negative operator which contributes to implicatures, but not to truth-conditions, and argued that the specific interpretations systematically associated with Catalan no-as negative structures follow from the hypothesis of echoic interpretive use.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of newspaper reports on the 1986 presidential election campaign in Austria in two newspapers (Die Presse and Neue Kronenzeitung) is presented, in which each of the utterance types is ranked according to structural and pragmatic properties along two dimensions, namely the directness of evaluation and the responsibility of author for evaluation.

TL;DR: In this article, a sketch of the possible workings of conversational maxims and principles in interactions involving aphasic persons is given, pointing to the influence of the principles of cooperation and of ethical and cognitive consideration; frequent over-interpretation by the non-aphasic interlocutor; and heavy reliance on inferences from background information and context.

TL;DR: The authors argue that this claim is not true and that there are certain negative consequences of its falsity for the more general theses that Karttunen and Vedler were interested in establishing, as well as for an equally general thesis developed outside their immediate concerns.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia and Kenya, the topicality and relative discourse salience of subjects and objects determines both their forms of expression and their relative order within clauses.

TL;DR: This paper showed that admissions or denials of guilt are communicative acts, performed in collaboration between two parties, i.e., the professional interviewer (judge or police officer) and the person, defendant or suspect, who allegedly had to admit or deny responsibility for a criminal action.