“See This Sitting One”: Demonstratives and Deictic Classifiers in Goemai

Hellwig, Birgit

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“…The physical location of a referent can indeed be calculated in relation to the speaker, but also relative to the addressee (Brown & Levinson, 2018 ; Denny, 1982 ; Hanks, 1990 ; Margetts, 2018 ), to the speaker–addressee dyad (Hanks, 1990 ; Hellwig, 2018 ; Jungbluth, 2003 ; Meira & Guirardello-Damian, 2018 ; Peeters & Özyürek, 2016 ; Weinrich, 1988 ), or to the relation between the speaker, addressee, or dyad and some external entity such as the sea, a river, a hill (Anderson & Keenan, 1985 ; Burenhult, 2008 ; Diessel, 1999 ; Dixon, 2003 ; Levinson, 2018 ), or in exceptional cultural circumstances even the palace of the local sultan (van Staden, 2018 ). Experimental work now indeed confirms that the perspective of the addressee (Rocca, Wallentin, et al, 2019 ), or the speaker–addressee dyad (Peeters, Hagoort, et al, 2015 ), can be taken as an anchoring point (H. H. Clark, 2020 ) by the speaker when selecting a demonstrative form.…”

Section: The Experimental Study Of Demonstratives: a Review Of Recent Workmentioning

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“…Moreover, number typically plays a role (cf. ‘ this chair’ to ‘ these chairs’), case may influence which specific form is used, and the animacy , humanness , or biological gender of the referent or even its current posture or positional orientation is in certain languages specified in demonstrative form (Diessel, 1999 ; Guirardello-Damian, 2018 ; Hellwig, 2018 ; Meira, 2003 ).…”

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A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

2020

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Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific entity we are talking about. Such demonstratives are acquired early in life, ubiquitous in everyday talk, often closely tied to our gestural communicative abilities, and present in all spoken languages of the world. Based on a review of recent experimental work, here we introduce a new conceptual framework of demonstrative reference. In the context of this framework, we argue that several physical, psychological, and referent-intrinsic factors dynamically interact to influence whether a speaker will use one demonstrative form (e.g., this) or another (e.g., that) in a given setting. However, the relative influence of these factors themselves is argued to be a function of the cultural language setting at hand, the theory-of-mind capacities of the speaker, and the affordances of the specific context in which the speech event takes place. It is demonstrated that the framework has the potential to reconcile findings in the literature that previously seemed irreconcilable. We show that the framework may to a large extent generalize to instances of endophoric reference (e.g., anaphora) and speculate that it may also describe the specific form and kinematics a speaker’s pointing gesture takes. Testable predictions and novel research questions derived from the framework are presented and discussed.

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Section: The Experimental Study Of Demonstratives: a Review Of Recent Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Experimental Study Of Demonstratives: a Review Of Recent Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

2020

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“…The physical location of a referent can indeed be calculated in relation to the speaker, but also relative to the addressee (Brown & Levinson, 2018;Denny, 1982;Hanks, 1990;Margetts, 2018), to the speaker-addressee dyad (Hanks, 1990;Hellwig, 2018;Jungbluth, 2003;Meira & Guirardello-Damian, 2018;Peeters & Özyürek, 2016;Weinrich, 1988), or to the relation between the speaker, addressee, or dyad and some external entity such as the sea, a river, a hill (Anderson & Keenan, 1985;Burenhult, 2008;Diessel, 1999;Dixon, 2003;Levinson, 2018), or in exceptional cultural circumstances even the palace of the local sultan (van Staden, 2018). Experimental work now indeed confirms that the perspective of the addressee , or the speaker-addressee dyad , can be taken as an anchoring point (H. H. Clark, 2020) by the speaker when selecting a demonstrative form.…”

Section: Physical Factors Influencing a Speaker's Choice Of Demonstrative Formmentioning

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“…Moreover, number typically plays a role (cf. 'this chair' to 'these chairs'), case may influence which specific form is used, and the animacy, humanness, or biological gender of the referent or even its current posture or positional orientation is in certain languages specified in demonstrative form (Diessel, 1999;Guirardello-Damian, 2018;Hellwig, 2018;Meira, 2003).…”

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A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Demonstrative Reference

Peeters¹,

Krahmer²,

Maes³

2020

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Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as they contribute to guiding the attention of our addressee to the specific entity we are talking about. Such demonstratives are acquired early in life, ubiquitous in everyday talk, often closely tied to our gestural communicative abilities, and present in all spoken languages of the world. Based on a review of recent experimental work, we here introduce a new conceptual framework of demonstrative reference. In the context of this framework, we argue that several physical, psychological, and referent-intrinsic factors dynamically interact to influence whether a speaker will use one demonstrative form (e.g., this) or another (e.g., that) in a given setting. However, the relative influence of these factors themselves is argued to be a function of the cultural language setting at hand, the theory-of-mind capacities of the speaker, and the affordances of the specific context in which the speech event takes place. It is demonstrated that the framework has the potential to reconcile findings in the literature that previously seemed irreconcilable. We show that the framework may to a large extent generalize to instances of endophoric reference (e.g., anaphora) and speculate that it may also describe the specific form and kinematics a speaker’s pointing gesture takes. Testable predictions and novel research questions derived from the framework are presented and discussed.

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“…Notice, however, that if the strength and direction of common signals overcame the precision of private information, we would be brought back to a multiple-equilibria scenario, 8 where sunspots are replaced by increases in the noise of individuals' signals. 9 Following this latter interpretation, the precision of private information may have been compromised further by the vulnerable character of indexed Brazilian debt, since under indexation a rise in the sovereign spread will actually increase the size of the debt, which may in turn adversely affect market sentiment in a vicious spiral.…”

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The Brazilian currency turmoil of 2002: a nonlinear analysis

Goretti

2005

Int. J. Fin. Econ.

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This paper investigates the main sources of instability in Brazil during the currency and financial distress episode of 2002. We test for financial contagion from the Argentine crisis and the impact of factors including IMF intervention and political uncertainty in raising the probability of crisis. The empirical investigation employs a Markov-switching model with endogenous transition probabilities. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“See This Sitting One”: Demonstratives and Deictic Classifiers in Goemai

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A conceptual framework for the study of demonstrative reference

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