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East Asian pragmatics Universiteit Antwerpen
Stance as participant structure: A Jakobsonian approach to the pragmatics and semantics of evidentiality KU Leuven
Jakobson (1957) bases the analysis of mood on a three-part structure that crucially involves two participant variables. Although the definition of evidentiality in Jakobson (1957) differs in some fundamental ways, it also allows for the explication of a participant structure inherent in evidential meanings. In this paper I argue that by exploring the interaction between these participant structures in multiple-perspective constructions and in ...
The business of pragmatics. The case of discourse markers in the speech of students of Business English and English Linguistics KU Leuven
This paper investigates how foreign language learners use discourse markers (such as so, well, you know, I mean) in English speech. These small words that do not contribute much, if anything at all, to the propositional content of a message but modify it in subtle ways, are often considered among the last elements acquired in a foreign language. This contribution reports on close scrutiny of a corpus of English-spoken interviews with Belgian ...
Cognition and pragmatics Universiteit Antwerpen
The pragmatics of interaction: a survey Universiteit Gent
Context and structure in a theory of pragmatics Universiteit Antwerpen
The pragmatics of non-canonical usage types of personal pronouns in Lingála (Democratic Republic of Congo) Universiteit Gent
Free-energy pragmatics Universiteit Antwerpen
We target the ontological and epistemological ramifications of the proposed distinction between Friston and Pearl blankets. We emphasize the need for empirical testing next to computational modeling. A peculiar aspect of the free energy principle (FEP) is its purported support of radically opposed ontologies of the mind. In our view, the objective ontological aspiration itself should be rejected for a pragmatic instrumentalist view.