Julia Fuchs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Julia Fuchs plays a role.
Articles
2024 ‘Easy Language’ for migrants in France: Looking for linguistic criteria ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:2, pp. 221–241 | Article
One of the target groups of Easy Language, a comprehensibility enhanced variety of a natural language, are migrants who have difficulties with the standard language of the host country. However, regarding French Easy Language, evidence-based linguistic criteria are lacking. Therefore, the… read more
2024 Pragmatics and cognition in Easy Language Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
A core area of pragmatics is conversational implicatures, where speakers imply a meaning that is not part of what is literally said. Not all people have the ability to easily understand such common (implicit) forms of communication. For these people, Easy Language has been developed, i.e. a form… read more
2023 40 years of research into children’s irony comprehension: A review Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
Children’s ability to understand irony is believed to be acquired late compared to other pragmatic skills. To explore this assertion, this article presents a review of four decades of research, to determine the age at which children actually do become capable of understanding ironic utterances,… read more