Joanna Blochowiak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1186023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Blochowiak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Blochowiak |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCHOWIAK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8574-6711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How does language shape formation of concepts? Empirical investigation of generics and conditionals in French
Towards a comprehensive pragmatic model of subjectivity
This paper delves into the phenomenon of subjectivity, with a particular focus on one of its components – perspective taking. It explores two linguistic cues categories: verb tenses in their perspectival usages and Free Indirect Discourse (FID). In this paper, we experimentally test how readers process sentences in which the French Passé Simple is employed in a perspectival manner within two types of subjective contexts: those with FID and those …
Predicting verbal mood in complement clauses
This study deals with the issue of mood choice in complement clauses in French, in which speakers may choose between the indicative or the subjunctive. We report on the results of two experiments using an elicitation task, in which we investigated how the matrix verb, via its distributive patterns (i.e. verbs selecting only the subjunctive vs. only the indicative vs. verbs accepting either mood), tense and grammatical aspect influences mood choic…
From implicit to explicit
The presence of discourse relations can be marked explicitly with lexical items such as specialized and underspecified connectives or left implicit. It is now well established that the presence of specialized connective facilitates the processing of these relations. The question is to gauge how different degrees of explicitness affect the processing of discourse relations. This study investigates this question with respect to two relations, which…
If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials
Human beings often fall prey to fallacious reasoning. One influential view holds that reasoners endorsing fallacies do not commit logical errors but rather that they endorse such fallacies on pragmatic grounds, i.e. by tacitly considering a conditional premise (If you wash my car, I will give you $10) a biconditional one (I will give you $10, if and only if you wash my car). If such an operation - known as invited inference or pragmatic enrichmen…
What type of subjectivity lies behind French causal connectives? A corpus-based comparative investigation of car and parce que
In French, the difference between the causal connectives parce que and car is traditionally related to the prototypical causal relations they are meant to convey. The main claim is that car conveys more subjective relations and is also used in higher register language, whereas parce que is equally well-suited to both types of relations. In line with recent studies, this contribution questions the clear-cut distinction between the two connectives …
Temporal connectives and verbal tenses as processing instructions
In this paper, we aim to enhance our understanding about the processing of implicit and explicit temporal chronological relations by investigating the roles of temporal connectives and verbal tenses, separately and in interaction. In particular, we investigate how two temporal connectives ( ensuite and puis , both meaning ‘then’) and two verbal tenses expressing past time (the simple and compound past) act as processing instructions for chronolog…
Towards a comprehensive pragmatic model of subjectivity
This paper delves into the phenomenon of subjectivity, with a particular focus on one of its components – perspective taking. It explores two linguistic cues categories: verb tenses in their perspectival usages and Free Indirect Discourse (FID). In this paper, we experimentally test how readers process sentences in which the French Passé Simple is employed in a perspectival manner within two types of subjective contexts: those with FID and those …
If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials
Human beings often fall prey to fallacious reasoning. One influential view holds that reasoners endorsing fallacies do not commit logical errors but rather that they endorse such fallacies on pragmatic grounds, i.e. by tacitly considering a conditional premise (If you wash my car, I will give you $10) a biconditional one (I will give you $10, if and only if you wash my car). If such an operation - known as invited inference or pragmatic enrichmen…
Temporal connectives and verbal tenses as processing instructions
In this paper, we aim to enhance our understanding about the processing of implicit and explicit temporal chronological relations by investigating the roles of temporal connectives and verbal tenses, separately and in interaction. In particular, we investigate how two temporal connectives ( ensuite and puis , both meaning ‘then’) and two verbal tenses expressing past time (the simple and compound past) act as processing instructions for chronolog…
What type of subjectivity lies behind French causal connectives? A corpus-based comparative investigation of car and parce que
In French, the difference between the causal connectives parce que and car is traditionally related to the prototypical causal relations they are meant to convey. The main claim is that car conveys more subjective relations and is also used in higher register language, whereas parce que is equally well-suited to both types of relations. In line with recent studies, this contribution questions the clear-cut distinction between the two connectives …
Predicting verbal mood in complement clauses
This study deals with the issue of mood choice in complement clauses in French, in which speakers may choose between the indicative or the subjunctive. We report on the results of two experiments using an elicitation task, in which we investigated how the matrix verb, via its distributive patterns (i.e. verbs selecting only the subjunctive vs. only the indicative vs. verbs accepting either mood), tense and grammatical aspect influences mood choic…
From implicit to explicit
The presence of discourse relations can be marked explicitly with lexical items such as specialized and underspecified connectives or left implicit. It is now well established that the presence of specialized connective facilitates the processing of these relations. The question is to gauge how different degrees of explicitness affect the processing of discourse relations. This study investigates this question with respect to two relations, which…
If and only if people were logical! The effect of pragmatic enrichment on reasoning with abstract and realistic materials
Human beings often fall prey to fallacious reasoning. One influential view holds that reasoners endorsing fallacies do not commit logical errors but rather that they endorse such fallacies on pragmatic grounds, i.e. by tacitly considering a conditional premise (If you wash my car, I will give you $10) a biconditional one (I will give you $10, if and only if you wash my car). If such an operation - known as invited inference or pragmatic enrichmen…
Towards a comprehensive pragmatic model of subjectivity
This paper delves into the phenomenon of subjectivity, with a particular focus on one of its components – perspective taking. It explores two linguistic cues categories: verb tenses in their perspectival usages and Free Indirect Discourse (FID). In this paper, we experimentally test how readers process sentences in which the French Passé Simple is employed in a perspectival manner within two types of subjective contexts: those with FID and those …
How does language shape formation of concepts? Empirical investigation of generics and conditionals in French
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)