List of figures
Figure 1.
Pearson’s correlation coefficients of Italian and English tweets
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Figure 2.
Pearson’s correlation coefficients between English and Italian
tweets and communicative functions
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Figure 3.
Distribution of communicative functions and implicit strategies in Twitter
and public speeches
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Figure 4.
Distribution of the variable medium and content type (or pragmatic function)
in the corpus
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Figure 5.
Components of event-related potentials
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Figure 6.
Brain rhythms in the EEG
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Figure 7.
Levels of interactions between content challengeability and packaging
challengeability
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Figure 8.
Frequency coefficients of the four CTs for presupposition and
assertion
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Figure 9.
Frequency coefficients for English speeches
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Figure 10.
Frequency coefficients for Italian speeches
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Figure 11.
Frequency coefficients for French speeches
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Figure 12.
Overall distribution of content types with presupposition packaging
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Figure 13.
Extension of neutral presuppositions
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Figure 14.
Extension of evaluative presuppositions
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Figure 15.
Extension of blasting presuppositions
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Figure 16.
Extension of ironical presuppositions
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Figure 17.
Explicitation of implicit content on Webanno
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Figure 18.
Comparison of global implicitness values from both synchronic and diachronic
analyses
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Figure 19.
Excerpt of a speech as it appears on the OPPP! website
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Figure 20.
Explanatory section of the OPPP! website
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Figure 21.
Global extension of challengeable implicit contents in the corpus
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