Discourse Processing

‘It’s hard to write a good article’: The online comprehension of excuses as indirect replies

In an eye-tracking experiment, we examined how readers comprehend indirect replies when they are uttered in reply to a direct question. …

Andrew J. Stewart, Jeffrey S. Wood, Elizabeth Le-Luan, Bo Yao, Matthew Haigh

Comprehension of indirect requests is influenced by their degree of imposition

In everyday conversation much communication is achieved using indirect language. This is particularly true when we utter requests. The …

Andrew J. Stewart, Elizabeth Le-Luan, Jeffrey S. Wood, Bo Yao, Matthew Haigh