Simple and complex deceits and ironies

Bosco, Francesca; Bucciarelli, Monica

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2007.05.004

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“…Several studies of school-age children have demonstrated that comprehension of deceit and irony (e.g., sarcasm) are qualitatively distinct abilities (Bara et al, 1999; Bosco and Bucciarelli, 2008; Lee and Katz, 1998). Comprehension of lies/deceit is acquired before sarcasm/irony and is based on a less complex inferential chain (Bucciarelli et al, 2003; Winner et al, 1988).…”

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Social cognition in psychosis: Multidimensional structure, clinical correlates, and relationship with functional outcome

Mancuso

Horan

Kern

et al. 2011

Schizophrenia Research

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Social cognitive impairments are common, detectable across a wide range of tasks, and appear to play a key role in explaining poor outcome in schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. However, little is known about the underlying factor structure of social cognition in people with psychotic disorders due to a lack of exploratory factor analyses using a relatively comprehensive social cognitive assessment battery. In a sample of 85 outpatients with psychosis, we examined the factor structure and clinical/functional correlates of eight indexes derived from five social cognition tasks that span the domains of emotional processing, social perception, attributional style, and Theory of Mind. Exploratory factor analysis revealed three factors with relatively low inter-correlations that explained a total of 54% of the variance: (1) Hostile attributional style, (2) Lower-level social cue detection, and (3) Higher-level inferential and regulatory processes. None of the factors showed significant correlations with negative symptoms. Factor 1 significantly correlated with clinical symptoms (positive, depression-anxiety, agitation) but not functional outcome, whereas Factors 2 and 3 significantly correlated with functional outcome (functional capacity and real-world social and work functioning) but not clinical symptoms. Furthermore, Factor 2 accounted for unique incremental variance in functional capacity, above and beyond nonsocial neurocognition (measured with MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery) and negative symptoms. Results suggest that multiple separable dimensions of social cognition can be identified in psychosis, and these factors show distinct patterns of correlation with clinical features and functional outcome.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social cognition in psychosis: Multidimensional structure, clinical correlates, and relationship with functional outcome

Mancuso

Horan

Kern

et al. 2011

Schizophrenia Research

243

185

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“…Bosco and Bucciarelli 2008;Lee, to appear). Recently, in so-called experimental pragmatics, these two strands of research, the psychological and the pragmatic, converge to a certain extent.…”

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On lying: intentionality, implicature, and imprecision

Meibauer¹

2011

Intercultural Pragmatics

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Although lying is a classical topic in philosophy, and certainly is very important in everyday life, there is a lack of genuine linguistic analyses of lying. In this article, lying is viewed as a speech act of insincere assertion. The liar misrepresents truth in order to deceive. While definitions like this are fairly common, consequences for the semantics/pragmatics interface, and, more importantly, for the ongoing debate about minimalism versus contextualism, never have been worked out in detail. This is what the article aims at, concentrating on three relevant issues, namely intentionality, implicature, and imprecision. It takes a moderate contextualist stand by showing that the possibility of lying is built into the language, thus allowing speakers to manipulate the representation of truth according to certain social goals. A case in point would be lying while saying the truth; in this case, the risk of being caught in the act of lying is reduced.

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“…Research has confirmed that the ambiguity involved in implicature interpretation is cognitively advanced (Bosco & Bucciarelli, 2008), as well as language-and culture-dependent (Bouton, 1994).…”

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On the Dark Side of Strategic Communication

Dulek

Campbell

2014

International Journal of Business Communication

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Although clarity holds a privileged place within the field of business/management/ corporate communication, adopting a strategic perspective suggests that ambiguity, and even deception, may be appropriate choices, depending on strategic intent. This article builds a framework for analyzing the dark side of strategic communication from both a strategic perspective and a linguistic perspective and then applies it to four business scenarios involving corporate finance; three involve public pronouncements from executives about future stock offerings, while the fourth involves a private statement made by a CEO to an important client and reported to the authors in an interview. The analysis of these scenarios leads the authors to propose that the intentional use of strategic ambiguity occurs along a continuum better represented by multiple shades of gray than a single hue of black.

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Simple and complex deceits and ironies

Cited by 57 publications

References 54 publications

Social cognition in psychosis: Multidimensional structure, clinical correlates, and relationship with functional outcome

Social cognition in psychosis: Multidimensional structure, clinical correlates, and relationship with functional outcome

On lying: intentionality, implicature, and imprecision

On the Dark Side of Strategic Communication

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