کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
920224 920272 2010 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The interpretation of indicative and subjunctive concessives
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The interpretation of indicative and subjunctive concessives
چکیده انگلیسی

Using a priming paradigm in the context of a reading comprehension task, the possibilities that people keep in mind in order to understand indicative and subjunctive concessive sentences were examined and compared to those from factual and counterfactual ‘if A, not-B’ conditionals. The length of time it took people to read conjunctive descriptions (i.e., A and B, A and not-B, not-A and B, not-A and not-B) after they had been primed by the different types of linguistic form was measured. The results suggest that, whereas indicative ‘even though’ concessives and ‘if, not’ conditionals are understood by keeping in mind just a single possibility (‘A and B’ and ‘A and not-B’, respectively), the initial representations of subjunctive ‘even if’ concessive–conditionals and ‘if, not’ counterfactuals are compatible with a multiple-model representation. The implications of these results are discussed within the mental models framework.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Acta Psychologica - Volume 134, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 245–252
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