Recalling presupposed information : evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets

Masia, Viviana; Garassino, Davide; Brocca, Nicola; de Saussure, Louis

doi:10.1075/pc.22011.mas

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29586

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Recalling presupposed information : evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets
Authors:	Masia, Viviana Garassino, Davide Brocca, Nicola de Saussure, Louis
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1075/pc.22011.mas 10.21256/zhaw-29586
Published in:	Pragmatics & Cognition
Volume(Issue):	30
Issue:	1
Page(s):	92
Pages to:	119
Issue Date:	Nov-2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	John Benjamins
ISSN:	0929-0907 1569-9943
Language:	English
Subjects:	Information recall and retrieval; Presupposition; Shallow processing; Twitter
Subject (DDC):	320: Politics 401.4: Terminology, discourse analysis, pragmatics
Abstract:	This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered tweets produced by Italian politicians to native speakers so as to assess how easily they could retrieve the presupposed content of two presupposition triggers (definite descriptions and change of state verbs), as opposed to their explicit paraphrase, by answering verification questions. Results showed that content presupposed by change of state verbs was likely to receive more attention than content conveyed by definite descriptions; this could possibly be due to the greater effort involved in mentally representing the event taken for granted by the predicates. Definite descriptions, on the contrary, seem to instruct to a shallower processing modality, which means that their content is processed less attentively or in a ‘good-enough’ way.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29586
Fulltext version:	Accepted version
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Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Masia, V., Garassino, D., Brocca, N., & de Saussure, L. (2023). Recalling presupposed information : evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets. Pragmatics & Cognition, 30(1), 92–119. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.22011.mas

Masia, V. et al. (2023) ‘Recalling presupposed information : evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets’, Pragmatics & Cognition, 30(1), pp. 92–119. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.22011.mas.

V. Masia, D. Garassino, N. Brocca, and L. de Saussure, “Recalling presupposed information : evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets,” Pragmatics & Cognition, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 92–119, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1075/pc.22011.mas.

MASIA, Viviana, Davide GARASSINO, Nicola BROCCA und Louis DE SAUSSURE, 2023. Recalling presupposed information : evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets. Pragmatics & Cognition. November 2023. Bd. 30, Nr. 1, S. 92–119. DOI 10.1075/pc.22011.mas

Masia, Viviana, Davide Garassino, Nicola Brocca, and Louis de Saussure. 2023. “Recalling Presupposed Information : Evidence from the Online Processing of Presuppositions in Political Tweets.” Pragmatics & Cognition 30 (1): 92–119. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.22011.mas.

Masia, Viviana, et al. “Recalling Presupposed Information : Evidence from the Online Processing of Presuppositions in Political Tweets.” Pragmatics & Cognition, vol. 30, no. 1, Nov. 2023, pp. 92–119, https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.22011.mas.