Nicolas Ruytenbeek

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicolas Ruytenbeek is involved.

Journal

Pragmatics

Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Edited by Helmut Gruber

ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238

Title

New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents

Edited by Daniela Rossi and Nicolas Ruytenbeek

For some years now, meanings that are communicated implicitly have been the target of intense theoretical debate and considerable empirical examination. However, it is mainly during the last decade that scholars started covering a range of topics from a variety of perspectives, weaving together… read more

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 28] 2014. v, 118 pp.

Ruytenbeek, Nicolas 2024 Indirectness Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment, Vandenbroucke, Mieke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt (eds.), pp. 101–127 | Chapter

Ruytenbeek, Nicolas, Jens Allaert and Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt 2024 Psychophysiological effects of evaluative language use on Twitter complaints and compliments Internet Pragmatics 7:2, pp. 193–218 | Article

This article explores the role of evaluative language in the identification of emotions in–and psychophysiological responses to–Twitter complaints and compliments by the readers of these messages. Three hypotheses were tested in this research. First, in line with recent experimental work in… read more

Ruytenbeek, Nicolas 2023 Directives (with a special emphasis on requests) Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment, D’hondt, Sigurd, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 67–93 | Chapter

Rossi, Daniela and Nicolas Ruytenbeek 2014 Introduction New Perspectives on Utterance Interpretation and Implicit Contents, Rossi, Daniela and Nicolas Ruytenbeek (eds.), pp. 1–2 | Miscellaneous

Ruytenbeek, Nicolas 2012 Les actes de langage indirects sont-ils tous conventionnels ? Revue Romane 47:2, pp. 258–282 | Article

This paper focuses on the variety of ways to communicate a directive illocutionary act in modern French. I argue that every type of directive speech act can be regarded as stemming from a convention, be it a linguistic one, for on-record speech acts, or a discursive one, for off-record speech acts.… read more

Ruytenbeek, Nicolas and Marc Ion Croes  Worse than bad, better than good: How evaluative language drives emotional reactions to online complaints and compliments Pragmatics & Cognition: Online-First Articles | Article

This article investigates text-based emotional contagion in online customer feedback, focusing on the role of evaluative language in Twitter (now X) complaints and compliments. Specifically, it examines the impact of evaluative language on readers’ attribution of positive and negative emotions… read more