Jean-Baptiste van der Henst
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Baptiste van der Henst plays a role.
Articles
2019 Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:2, pp. 314–340 | Article
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners (Slabakova, 2010) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early… read more
2017 Does prestige affect us physiologically? A study in an interactional context Interaction Studies 18:2, pp. 214–233 | Article
Past research dedicated to the impact of hierarchy on the autonomic nervous system has focused mainly on dominance. The current study extends this investigation by assessing the effect of social prestige, operationalized through occupational status, and examines whether people react differently… read more
2017 You can laugh at everything, but not with everyone: What jokes can tell us about group affiliations Interaction Studies 18:1, pp. 116–141 | Article
This paper explores the impact of group affiliation with respect to the on-line processing and appreciation of jokes, using facial electromyography (EMG) activity and offline evaluations as dependent measures. Two experiments were conducted in which group affiliation varied between the participant… read more
2011 Squib: A deflationary account of invited inferences Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and perspectives, Bochner, Gregory, Philippe De Brabanter, Mikhail Kissine and Daniela Rossi (eds.), pp. 195–208 | Article
This squib reconsiders Geis & Zwicky’s influential proposal on Invited Inference, according to which conditionals are regularly “perfected” to biconditionals. We first show that the “regularity” assumption attached to conditional perfection is doubtful in light of established experimental findings… read more