An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags

This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi? is a rather unconstrained confirmational, eh? is proved to be sensitive to whe...

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Autores: Castroviejo, Elena|||0000-0003-0371-1214, Mayol, Laia|||0000-0001-5386-816X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.406
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Palabra clave:Question tags
Confirmational tags
Biased questions
Catalan
Experimental pragmatics
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spelling An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tagsCastroviejo, Elena|||0000-0003-0371-1214Mayol, Laia|||0000-0001-5386-816XQuestion tagsConfirmational tagsBiased questionsCatalanExperimental pragmaticsThis paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi? is a rather unconstrained confirmational, eh? is proved to be sensitive to whether the main predicate of the sentence anchor p is objective or subjective. We ultimately propose that confirmational questions with oi? make a request for confirmation of the truth of the sentence anchor, whereas a confirmational with eh? is a request for the commitment of the addressee to the truth of the sentence anchor. Two consequences emerge from our analysis: oi? should be preferred when factual truths instead of opinions are conveyed, while eh? should be preferred in contexts where the speaker is not necessarily interested in finding out the truth of p. These predictions are tested in three experimental studies, which provide empirical support for the theoretical proposal regarding the different pragmatic contribution of both tags. 22024-01-0120242024-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/304779https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.406reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 PID2021-122779NB-I00open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3047792026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
title An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
spellingShingle An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
Castroviejo, Elena|||0000-0003-0371-1214
Question tags
Confirmational tags
Biased questions
Catalan
Experimental pragmatics
title_short An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
title_full An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
title_fullStr An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
title_full_unstemmed An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
title_sort An empirical study on the semantics-pragmatics of two Romance confirmational tags
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Castroviejo, Elena|||0000-0003-0371-1214
Mayol, Laia|||0000-0001-5386-816X
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Mayol, Laia|||0000-0001-5386-816X
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Question tags
Confirmational tags
Biased questions
Catalan
Experimental pragmatics
topic Question tags
Confirmational tags
Biased questions
Catalan
Experimental pragmatics
description This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi? is a rather unconstrained confirmational, eh? is proved to be sensitive to whether the main predicate of the sentence anchor p is objective or subjective. We ultimately propose that confirmational questions with oi? make a request for confirmation of the truth of the sentence anchor, whereas a confirmational with eh? is a request for the commitment of the addressee to the truth of the sentence anchor. Two consequences emerge from our analysis: oi? should be preferred when factual truths instead of opinions are conveyed, while eh? should be preferred in contexts where the speaker is not necessarily interested in finding out the truth of p. These predictions are tested in three experimental studies, which provide empirical support for the theoretical proposal regarding the different pragmatic contribution of both tags.
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