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TY - CONF
T1 - Effects of negation and knowledgeability on pragmatic inferences
AU - Rees, Alice
AU - Rohde, Hannah
PY - 2022/7/22
Y1 - 2022/7/22
N2 - Language use can be characterised as transparent, stating facts about the world, or non-transparent, requiring additional meaning to be inferred. The challenge faced by addressees is recognizing when language use is transparent or not. The current study investigates two factors that may influence how readily participants interpret utterances as instances of transparent or non-transparent language use; speaker knowledgeability and utterance form. When utterances involved negation participants were more likely to recognize this as non-transparent language use and infer that the situation is usually different. Whereas speaker knowledge did not influence how utterances were understood.
AB - Language use can be characterised as transparent, stating facts about the world, or non-transparent, requiring additional meaning to be inferred. The challenge faced by addressees is recognizing when language use is transparent or not. The current study investigates two factors that may influence how readily participants interpret utterances as instances of transparent or non-transparent language use; speaker knowledgeability and utterance form. When utterances involved negation participants were more likely to recognize this as non-transparent language use and infer that the situation is usually different. Whereas speaker knowledge did not influence how utterances were understood.
KW - inferences
KW - negation
KW - pragmatics
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85146439980
SP - 1553
EP - 1558
T2 - 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022
Y2 - 27 July 2022 through 30 July 2022
ER -