Didier Maillat
List of John Benjamins publications for which Didier Maillat plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0929-0907 | E-ISSN 1569-9943
2024 Chapter 2. Manipulation in exceptional times: Exploiting overwhelming contextual parameters for manipulative purposes Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 62–84 | Chapter
This chapter offers a cognitively-grounded account of manipulative strategies speakers may use to challenge and discredit scientific discourse in times of crisis, in which the perceived reliability of scientific communication is vulnerable. Specifically, we explore how such an overwhelming… read more
2023 On the manifestness of assumptions: Gaining insights into commitment and emotions Concepts and Context in Relevance-Theoretic Pragmatics: New Developments, Piskorska, Agnieszka and Manuel Padilla Cruz (eds.), pp. 460–485 | Article
Right from the outset, relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995) tried to define interpretation as a process of context elaboration. Interpretation is seen as a path of least effort leading to the selection of a set of most accessible assumptions. One of the central aspects of this context… read more
2020 The Argument and the Honey Pot: A pragmatic account of fallacies of seduction Argumentation and Meaning: Semantic and pragmatic reflexions, Oswald, Steve, Sara Greco, Johanna Miecznikowski, Chiara Pollaroli and Andrea Rocci (eds.), pp. 124–147 | Article
This paper proposes to harness the linguistic theory that looks at the construction of meaning in context – i.e., pragmatics – to investigate the contextual effects bearing on the interpretation of arguments in manipulative seduction contexts. Adopting a cognitively grounded relevance-theoretic… read more
2012 2. Pragmatically disambiguating space: Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Article
This chapter addresses two points of a research agenda set by Levinson and Wilkins (2006) for the analysis of spatial information processing in natural languages. First, a pragmatic model is proposed that relies mostly on general pragmatic principles to inferentially disambiguate semantically… read more
2011 Constraining Context: A Pragmatic Account of Cognitive Manipulation Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition, Hart, Christopher (ed.), pp. 65–80 | Article
2010 The pragmatics of L2 in CLIL Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms, Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit (eds.), pp. 39–58 | Article
Results, drawn from naturally occurring classroom interactions in CLIL environments collected in Switzerland, are used to argue that a theoretical proposal can be made about the specific impact that CLIL has on second language learning. Based on the observation of a combination of qualitative and… read more
2003 Towards a universal DRT model for the interpretation of directional PPs within a reference frame Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 1, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 295–305 | Article