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Publication details [#65706]

Licea-Haquet, G.L., E.P. Velásquez-Upegui, T. Holtgraves and M. Giordano. 2019. Speech act recognition in Spanish speakers. Journal of Pragmatics 141 : 44–56.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive capacity | conversation, comprehension of | illocutionary force | mental state | speech act

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

There are no odds in the recognition rate between directive, assertive, commissive, and expressive speech acts in Spanish speakers. Spanish speakers can automatically identify speech acts in utterances. The skill to identify speech acts is related to overall cognitive capacity and explicit mental state argumentation.