Ilse Depraetere
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1005915 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ilse Depraetere |
| NOMBRES | Ilse |
| APELLIDO | Depraetere |
| FIRMA | DEPRAETERE I |
| AFILIACIONES | Savoirs, Textes, Langage |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3853-3876 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Hedged performatives in spoken American English
This article examines the diachronic development of hedged performatives (HP) in spoken American English. HPs (e.g. I have to say , I must admit ) combine a (semi-)modal verb and a performative verb, and were first analyzed by Fraser (1975). While subsequent research has investigated their discursive functions and established them as ‘constructions’, their diachronic development has not been analyzed within a Construction Grammar perspective. Thi…
Building a Child’s Trust before a Medical Procedure
When a paediatrician establishes a trusting relationship with their patient, the chance of a positive outcome multiplies. A calm child, who participates fully in the communicative exchange is more receptive to the clinician’s requests and reports weaker sensations of pain. This experience stays with the child, shaping how they approach their healthcare as adults. Our qualitative case study unpacks the linguistic aspects of a 32-minute videoed and…
Hedged Performatives in Spoken American English
This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of so-called “hedged performatives,” which, although frequently referred to in the literature, have never been the subject of an in-depth functional study. Using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the focus is on I must/ have to say, I must/ have to admit, and I must/ have to confess, as the hedged performatives which are among the most frequent and score highest in terms of collocat…
Making meaning with be able to
This article sheds new light on the usage constraints of be able to , by combining empirical evidence from the British National Corpus (BNC, Davies 2004–) with theoretical insights on the semantics–pragmatics interface. First, we show that be able to does not, contrary to the general assumption, express only ‘ability’ but it shares most of the root meanings usually associated with the possibility modals can and could (Coates 1983: 124). The data …
Sources of Modal Necessity
This paper offers a principled framework for the analysis of sources associated with modal verbs that express root necessity. First, the notion of “source” (who or what lies at the origin of the necessity) is described and illustrated, and a comprehensive taxonomy of sources is put forward that can be used for empirical analysis. Special attention is paid to “subject-oriented” sources, which have mainly been discussed in the realm of modal possib…
The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers
This paper addresses how the realizations of different constitutive components of Twitter complaints shape the perception of these complaints by other customers. We present three experiments on French language in which we test how customer complaint perception is impacted by the realization of the complainable (Exp. 1), of the entity responsible for the complainable (Exp. 2), and of the customer’s wish for the complainable to be remedied (Exp. 3)…
Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints
To date, there has been little attention for the factors that influence the perception of online complaints. We present two experiments in which we test the impact of the degree of linguistic (in)directness and the formal realization of complaint components on complaint perception. Our experimental stimuli are designed on the basis of French-language authentic Twitter complaints which have been coded in terms of the presence of four constitutive …
Linguistic (in)directness in twitter complaints
The necessity modals have to , must , need to , and should
When an ambiguous lexical item appears within a familiar string of words, it can instantly receive an appropriate interpretation from this context, thus being saturated by it. Such a context may also short-circuit illocutionary and other pragmatic aspects of interpretation. We here extract from the British National Corpus over 500 internally highly collocating and high-frequency lexical n-grams up to 5 words containing have to , must , need to , …
(In)directness and complaints
Modal meaning in Construction Grammar
Within the framework of Construction Grammar, modality remains a rather underexplored linguistic domain. This observation led to the organization of a workshop on modal meaning in Construction Grammar at ISLE 3, the third conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, held in Zürich in 2014. While attempts to analyse modal (and/or future) auxiliaries from this theoretical perspective are relatively scare, they are definit…
Short-circuited interpretations of modal verb constructions
In this paper we aim to show how distinct semantic and pragmatic layers of modal interpretation can be fruitfully integrated within a constructionist approach. We discuss in detail a number of cases from the Simpsons where a modal verb, as part of a longer expression, has a short-circuited interpretation , that is, where it is conventionally associated with a context-specific modal semantic value and, in some cases, with added pragmatic informati…
Response to Hilpert
Modals and lexically-regulated saturation
Source and strength of modality
(A)telicity and intentionality
This article argues for a treatment of telicity that gives due space to intentionality, i.e., that recognizes the role intentionality may play in establishing the mutually manifest inherent or natural endpoint crucial to the definition of telicity. Sentences with numerical NP objects and for adverbials are shown not to be automatically telic. It is only if the constituents in question are contextually given as inherent endpoints that they are [+t…
The perfect and the preterite in contemporary and earlier English
Aspectual grammar and past-time reference
On the resultative character of present perfect sentences
On the likelihood of past tense situations still being the case at the time of speaking
Several linguists have pointed out that the past tense has the implicature that the situation it refers to is no longer the case at the moment of speaking (cf. John lived in London in 1985, but he no longer does ). In this article, it is argued that in certain types of sentences the implicature associated with the past tense is more likely to be cancelled than in others. It is shown how (un)-boundedness, (a)telicity and the status of adverbials i…
Foregrounding in English relative clauses
The aim of this article is twofold: first, we want to delineate the defining criteria of the foreground. In order to list its necessary and sufficient characteristics, critical observations are made on the claim that the rule of foregrounding is an implicature and that foregrounding only occurs in pasttense main clauses. The issue whether it is (un)boundedness rather than (a)telicity that determines whether a situation belongs to the foreground i…
The Double System of Tense Forms Referring to Future Time in English
As is well known, some types of subclause in English differ from independent clauses in that they require a different tense form when the reference is to the future. We say I will be happy if the weather is nice tomorrow, but not*I am happy if the weather is nice tomorrow or *I will be happy if the weather will be nice tomorrow. As is clear from these examples, the two ways of referring to the future are subject to different conditions, and each …
Some observations on the expression of temporal relations in future-time relative clauses
This paper deals with the question whether the syntactic diffrence between restrictive relative clauses (RRC) and nonrestrictive relative clauses (NRRC) results in different tense systems determining the choice of verb forms to indicate future time. It is shown that future-time NRRCs only allow the use of absolute tenses to express temporal relations, whereas in RRCs, relative tenses can be used as well. However, there are a number of constraints…
(In)directness and complaints
Linguistic (in)directness in twitter complaints
Aspectual grammar and past-time reference
Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints
To date, there has been little attention for the factors that influence the perception of online complaints. We present two experiments in which we test the impact of the degree of linguistic (in)directness and the formal realization of complaint components on complaint perception. Our experimental stimuli are designed on the basis of French-language authentic Twitter complaints which have been coded in terms of the presence of four constitutive …
Foregrounding in English relative clauses
The aim of this article is twofold: first, we want to delineate the defining criteria of the foreground. In order to list its necessary and sufficient characteristics, critical observations are made on the claim that the rule of foregrounding is an implicature and that foregrounding only occurs in pasttense main clauses. The issue whether it is (un)boundedness rather than (a)telicity that determines whether a situation belongs to the foreground i…
The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers
This paper addresses how the realizations of different constitutive components of Twitter complaints shape the perception of these complaints by other customers. We present three experiments on French language in which we test how customer complaint perception is impacted by the realization of the complainable (Exp. 1), of the entity responsible for the complainable (Exp. 2), and of the customer’s wish for the complainable to be remedied (Exp. 3)…
(A)telicity and intentionality
This article argues for a treatment of telicity that gives due space to intentionality, i.e., that recognizes the role intentionality may play in establishing the mutually manifest inherent or natural endpoint crucial to the definition of telicity. Sentences with numerical NP objects and for adverbials are shown not to be automatically telic. It is only if the constituents in question are contextually given as inherent endpoints that they are [+t…
On the resultative character of present perfect sentences
Modals and lexically-regulated saturation
Source and strength of modality
Some observations on the expression of temporal relations in future-time relative clauses
This paper deals with the question whether the syntactic diffrence between restrictive relative clauses (RRC) and nonrestrictive relative clauses (NRRC) results in different tense systems determining the choice of verb forms to indicate future time. It is shown that future-time NRRCs only allow the use of absolute tenses to express temporal relations, whereas in RRCs, relative tenses can be used as well. However, there are a number of constraints…
Some observations on the expression of temporal relations in future-time relative clauses
This paper deals with the question whether the syntactic diffrence between restrictive relative clauses (RRC) and nonrestrictive relative clauses (NRRC) results in different tense systems determining the choice of verb forms to indicate future time. It is shown that future-time NRRCs only allow the use of absolute tenses to express temporal relations, whereas in RRCs, relative tenses can be used as well. However, there are a number of constraints…
The Double System of Tense Forms Referring to Future Time in English
As is well known, some types of subclause in English differ from independent clauses in that they require a different tense form when the reference is to the future. We say I will be happy if the weather is nice tomorrow, but not*I am happy if the weather is nice tomorrow or *I will be happy if the weather will be nice tomorrow. As is clear from these examples, the two ways of referring to the future are subject to different conditions, and each …
On the likelihood of past tense situations still being the case at the time of speaking
Several linguists have pointed out that the past tense has the implicature that the situation it refers to is no longer the case at the moment of speaking (cf. John lived in London in 1985, but he no longer does ). In this article, it is argued that in certain types of sentences the implicature associated with the past tense is more likely to be cancelled than in others. It is shown how (un)-boundedness, (a)telicity and the status of adverbials i…
Foregrounding in English relative clauses
The aim of this article is twofold: first, we want to delineate the defining criteria of the foreground. In order to list its necessary and sufficient characteristics, critical observations are made on the claim that the rule of foregrounding is an implicature and that foregrounding only occurs in pasttense main clauses. The issue whether it is (un)boundedness rather than (a)telicity that determines whether a situation belongs to the foreground i…
On the resultative character of present perfect sentences
The perfect and the preterite in contemporary and earlier English
Aspectual grammar and past-time reference
(A)telicity and intentionality
This article argues for a treatment of telicity that gives due space to intentionality, i.e., that recognizes the role intentionality may play in establishing the mutually manifest inherent or natural endpoint crucial to the definition of telicity. Sentences with numerical NP objects and for adverbials are shown not to be automatically telic. It is only if the constituents in question are contextually given as inherent endpoints that they are [+t…
Source and strength of modality
Modals and lexically-regulated saturation
Modal meaning in Construction Grammar
Within the framework of Construction Grammar, modality remains a rather underexplored linguistic domain. This observation led to the organization of a workshop on modal meaning in Construction Grammar at ISLE 3, the third conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, held in Zürich in 2014. While attempts to analyse modal (and/or future) auxiliaries from this theoretical perspective are relatively scare, they are definit…
Short-circuited interpretations of modal verb constructions
In this paper we aim to show how distinct semantic and pragmatic layers of modal interpretation can be fruitfully integrated within a constructionist approach. We discuss in detail a number of cases from the Simpsons where a modal verb, as part of a longer expression, has a short-circuited interpretation , that is, where it is conventionally associated with a context-specific modal semantic value and, in some cases, with added pragmatic informati…
Response to Hilpert
(In)directness and complaints
The necessity modals have to , must , need to , and should
When an ambiguous lexical item appears within a familiar string of words, it can instantly receive an appropriate interpretation from this context, thus being saturated by it. Such a context may also short-circuit illocutionary and other pragmatic aspects of interpretation. We here extract from the British National Corpus over 500 internally highly collocating and high-frequency lexical n-grams up to 5 words containing have to , must , need to , …
Linguistic (in)directness in twitter complaints
Making meaning with be able to
This article sheds new light on the usage constraints of be able to , by combining empirical evidence from the British National Corpus (BNC, Davies 2004–) with theoretical insights on the semantics–pragmatics interface. First, we show that be able to does not, contrary to the general assumption, express only ‘ability’ but it shares most of the root meanings usually associated with the possibility modals can and could (Coates 1983: 124). The data …
Sources of Modal Necessity
This paper offers a principled framework for the analysis of sources associated with modal verbs that express root necessity. First, the notion of “source” (who or what lies at the origin of the necessity) is described and illustrated, and a comprehensive taxonomy of sources is put forward that can be used for empirical analysis. Special attention is paid to “subject-oriented” sources, which have mainly been discussed in the realm of modal possib…
The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers
This paper addresses how the realizations of different constitutive components of Twitter complaints shape the perception of these complaints by other customers. We present three experiments on French language in which we test how customer complaint perception is impacted by the realization of the complainable (Exp. 1), of the entity responsible for the complainable (Exp. 2), and of the customer’s wish for the complainable to be remedied (Exp. 3)…
Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints
To date, there has been little attention for the factors that influence the perception of online complaints. We present two experiments in which we test the impact of the degree of linguistic (in)directness and the formal realization of complaint components on complaint perception. Our experimental stimuli are designed on the basis of French-language authentic Twitter complaints which have been coded in terms of the presence of four constitutive …
Hedged Performatives in Spoken American English
This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of so-called “hedged performatives,” which, although frequently referred to in the literature, have never been the subject of an in-depth functional study. Using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, the focus is on I must/ have to say, I must/ have to admit, and I must/ have to confess, as the hedged performatives which are among the most frequent and score highest in terms of collocat…
Building a Child’s Trust before a Medical Procedure
When a paediatrician establishes a trusting relationship with their patient, the chance of a positive outcome multiplies. A calm child, who participates fully in the communicative exchange is more receptive to the clinician’s requests and reports weaker sensations of pain. This experience stays with the child, shaping how they approach their healthcare as adults. Our qualitative case study unpacks the linguistic aspects of a 32-minute videoed and…
Hedged performatives in spoken American English
This article examines the diachronic development of hedged performatives (HP) in spoken American English. HPs (e.g. I have to say , I must admit ) combine a (semi-)modal verb and a performative verb, and were first analyzed by Fraser (1975). While subsequent research has investigated their discursive functions and established them as ‘constructions’, their diachronic development has not been analyzed within a Construction Grammar perspective. Thi…
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