Alison V Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison V Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison V |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agnes Scott College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7315-0593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring what they intend to communicate. As a result, the linguistically decoded meaning is pragmatically enriched to arrive at what the speaker says (or directly communicates) - the 'explicated content' of the utterance - which can serve…
Mosaic
Despite increased awareness of a wide range of demographics, existing theory fails to adequately explain how the stereotypes associated with multiple demographic categories (e.g., Black, female, gay, Muslim) combine to influence evaluations of employees. We present MOSAIC—a model of stereotyping through associated and intersectional categories—to explain how stereotypes from various demographic categories influence the expectations for, and visib…
Diversity, Discrimination, and Persistent Inequality
Despite considerable attention to “valuing diversity” among scholars and practitioners, discrimination, exclusion, and inequality persist in American organizations. In particular, similarly educated African Americans typically have higher unemployment and lower earnings than other groups, and continue to face discrimination in access to jobs and in treatment at work. Black‐White wage gaps are higher than they were decades ago, and without signifi…
Social Exchange Theory
Social exchange theory is one of the most prominent conceptual perspectives in management, as well as related fields like sociology and social psychology. An important criticism of social exchange theory; however, is that it lacks sufficient theoretical precision, and thus has limited utility. Scholars who apply social exchange theory are able to explain many social phenomena in post hoc manner but are severely limited in their ability to make us…
Black and blue
In late 2014, a series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed Black male civilians in the United States prompted large-scale social turmoil. In the current review, we dissect the psychological antecedents of these killings and explain how the nature of police work may attract officers with distinct characteristics that may make them especially well-primed for negative interactions with Black male civilians. We use media reports to contex…
Pragmatics Versus Semantics
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics has proved notoriously difficult to agree on. Most people would accept that pragmatics is concerned with context‐specific, inferred meanings, whereas semantics is concerned with the conventional meanings of words and sentences. Semantics is, however, traditionally seen as the study of truth conditions, with pragmatics being “meaning minus truth conditions.” The tension between these two requirement…
Subsentential utterances, ellipsis, and pragmatic enrichment
It is argued that genuinely subsentential phrases, such as a discourse-initial utterance of “From France” to indicate the provenance of an item, provide evidence for the reality of the pragmatic process of free enrichment. I consider recent attempts to treat such discourse-initial fragments as linguistic ellipsis of some kind while accommodating the difference between these cases and accepted types of ellipsis such as sluicing and gapping (for ex…
Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures
Black and blue
In late 2014, a series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed Black male civilians in the United States prompted large-scale social turmoil. In the current review, we dissect the psychological antecedents of these killings and explain how the nature of police work may attract officers with distinct characteristics that may make them especially well-primed for negative interactions with Black male civilians. We use media reports to contex…
Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures
Diversity, Discrimination, and Persistent Inequality
Despite considerable attention to “valuing diversity” among scholars and practitioners, discrimination, exclusion, and inequality persist in American organizations. In particular, similarly educated African Americans typically have higher unemployment and lower earnings than other groups, and continue to face discrimination in access to jobs and in treatment at work. Black‐White wage gaps are higher than they were decades ago, and without signifi…
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring what they intend to communicate. As a result, the linguistically decoded meaning is pragmatically enriched to arrive at what the speaker says (or directly communicates) - the 'explicated content' of the utterance - which can serve…
Do discourse connectives encode concepts or procedures
Subsentential utterances, ellipsis, and pragmatic enrichment
It is argued that genuinely subsentential phrases, such as a discourse-initial utterance of “From France” to indicate the provenance of an item, provide evidence for the reality of the pragmatic process of free enrichment. I consider recent attempts to treat such discourse-initial fragments as linguistic ellipsis of some kind while accommodating the difference between these cases and accepted types of ellipsis such as sluicing and gapping (for ex…
Pragmatics Versus Semantics
The distinction between semantics and pragmatics has proved notoriously difficult to agree on. Most people would accept that pragmatics is concerned with context‐specific, inferred meanings, whereas semantics is concerned with the conventional meanings of words and sentences. Semantics is, however, traditionally seen as the study of truth conditions, with pragmatics being “meaning minus truth conditions.” The tension between these two requirement…
Black and blue
In late 2014, a series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed Black male civilians in the United States prompted large-scale social turmoil. In the current review, we dissect the psychological antecedents of these killings and explain how the nature of police work may attract officers with distinct characteristics that may make them especially well-primed for negative interactions with Black male civilians. We use media reports to contex…
Social Exchange Theory
Social exchange theory is one of the most prominent conceptual perspectives in management, as well as related fields like sociology and social psychology. An important criticism of social exchange theory; however, is that it lacks sufficient theoretical precision, and thus has limited utility. Scholars who apply social exchange theory are able to explain many social phenomena in post hoc manner but are severely limited in their ability to make us…
Diversity, Discrimination, and Persistent Inequality
Despite considerable attention to “valuing diversity” among scholars and practitioners, discrimination, exclusion, and inequality persist in American organizations. In particular, similarly educated African Americans typically have higher unemployment and lower earnings than other groups, and continue to face discrimination in access to jobs and in treatment at work. Black‐White wage gaps are higher than they were decades ago, and without signifi…
Mosaic
Despite increased awareness of a wide range of demographics, existing theory fails to adequately explain how the stereotypes associated with multiple demographic categories (e.g., Black, female, gay, Muslim) combine to influence evaluations of employees. We present MOSAIC—a model of stereotyping through associated and intersectional categories—to explain how stereotypes from various demographic categories influence the expectations for, and visib…
Pragmatic inference, levels of meaning and speaker accountability
Are speakers held more accountable for what they explicitly communicate than for what they implicate? Speakers typically communicate more than they linguistically encode, thus leaving to addressees the task of inferring what they intend to communicate. As a result, the linguistically decoded meaning is pragmatically enriched to arrive at what the speaker says (or directly communicates) - the 'explicated content' of the utterance - which can serve…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)