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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"hearer"”.
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Testimonial Injustice and the Puzzle of Hearer Culpability
… account of testimonial injustice, the puzzle of hearer culpability: how is it possible for hearers to be culpable for beliefs they form on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices that regularly bypass conscious thought? In trying to solve this puzzle, I consider one way to hold hearers culpable …
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The pragmatics of selected discourse markers in Swahili
… framework which assumes that speakers and hearers are rational agents whose behavior, including verbal behavior, is plan-based and goal-oriented. In this view, speech is coherent because the hearer can perceive the relation of utterances to the speaker's plan in the discourse. Discourse …
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The pragmatics and syntax of pragmatic morphemes in Korean
… I describe how the speaker uses a PM and how the hearer understands it. I claim that a PM has one sense and its various uses are inferred from that sense according to the Gricean CP. When the speaker uses a PM in his utterance, he assumes the hearer believes he has goals, and he expects her to be …
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The Development of Pragmatic Competence and Perception of Requests by American Learners of the Russian Language
… the choice of strategies. For instance, hearer preparatory condition and hearer intention strategies seem preferable for situations represented by the request for a ride. Second, conventionally indirect (CI) requests are the top strategy of all three groups. Overall, both native groups …
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Knowledge through communication : a response to the question of how testimony-based knowledge is possible
… a response to the question of how it is that a hearer can get knowledge from testimony. The project has two main components. The first is to suggest that the obstacle to getting knowledge through testimony (the obstacle of epistemic vulnerability) is one that can be ignored. The second is to set …
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The role of first and second language speech rhythm in syntactic ambiguity processing and musical rhythmic aptitude
… aiding word segmentation and recognition by the hearer. After word recognition, the hearer is able to retrieve word meaning form his mental lexicon, integrating it with information from other linguistic domains, such as semantics, syntax and pragmatics, until comprehension is achieved. The …
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Testimony Without Belief
… speaker testifies to some proposition p to some hearer, and the hearer learns that p, must that speaker believe that p? Those who maintain the traditional view in the epistemology of testimony claim that testimony is primarily a way in which speakers transmit beliefs to hearers. If this is the …
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The notion of the self with special reference to Karl Rahner and Julia Kristeva
… Karl Rahner’s theology of the person as hearer through a critical engagement with Julia Kristeva’s post-structuralist notion of the speaking subject. This offers an experimental exploration of contemporary theological understanding of subjectivity, with specific reference to ideas of …
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The use of English requests by native Spanish speakers and its relation to politeness values
… norms of speaking of the speaker and the hearer. Universal pragmatic principles, such as being cooperative or show politeness, exist in all languages and cultures but how these principles are manifested through the use of language is linguistically and culturally determined.
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… creates an anonymous subjectivity into which the hearer or, especially, the performer of the song is called to enter. This emphasis on subjectivity reflects the ideology of affective piety, which was being disseminated in England in the thirteenth century by Franciscan friars, partly through the …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… creates an anonymous subjectivity into which the hearer or, especially, the performer of the song is called to enter. This emphasis on subjectivity reflects the ideology of affective piety, which was being disseminated in England in the thirteenth century by Franciscan friars, partly through the …
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Spanish Vowel Sandhi: Toward a Characterization of Low-Level Processes in Phonology
… language which are crucial to decoding by the hearer, but in the speaker are more a product of performance than competence. Previous phonological frameworks have ignored such phonetic detail as "uninteresting" or have compartmentalized it into optional rules, variable rules, rules with …
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Co-ordination of speech and gesture in sequence and time: Phonetic and non-verbal detail in face-to-face interaction
… and between turns of talk, and how speakers and hearers accommodate each other in this process, using particular phonetic and non-verbal resources. It aims to pin down some of the interactional background work necessary to maintain coherence between turns, and seeks to explain how efficient …
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Interactive generation of effective discourse in situated context : a planning-based approach
… generate discourse that interactively guides a hearer through completing their task. Our approach addresses the challenges of controlling, adapting to, and monitoring the situated context. To this end, we develop a natural language generation system that plans how to manipulate the …
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THE DEFINITION AND FUNCTION OF DECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION IN A LABOR-MANAGEMENT NEGOTIATION SESSION (LYING, BELIEFS, GENUINE).
… The primary set of independent variables were HEARER-BELIEFS of a speaker's intent, the propositional content of the utterance made and the speaker's sincerity, measured by a 7-point Likert-type scale. The secondary set of independent variables were ten (10) plausible characteristics of a …
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On Distinguishing the Meaningless from the Meaningful: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Ruth Millikan\'s Teleosemantics
… stable state composed of both speaker and hearer strategies.
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The interpretation and use of numerically-quantified expressions
… about the speaker's choice of utterance and the hearer's interpretation of utterances. I discuss the relation between these two aspects of the model, showing how constraints on the speaker's choice of utterance are predicted to make pragmatic enrichments available to the hearer. I then consider …
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The interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion
… Pragmatic inference refers to inferences that hearers or observers make when attempting to arrive at speaker meaning, a process during which they presumably operate according to the Maxims postulated by Grice (1975). The empirical phenomena that this thesis takes as a starting point are mock …
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The German reportative subjunctive: a relevance-theoretic analysis
… to reduce the amount of processing effort that a hearer must expend in inferring that an instance of indirect speech is to be understood to conform to a specific prototype of indirect speech. This procedural meaning is able to account for three phenomena which are characteristic of the German …
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Method and scope in cross-cultural speech act research: A contrastive study of requests in Japanese and English
… frequent. Japanese interaction is said to be hearer-oriented, thus vague and indirect, so a study of requests in Japanese should reveal a greater preference for hints. However, since questionnaires do not reflect the negotiated nature of actual interaction, they may not be a valid means of …
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