Hazel Pearson

Datos Biográficos

ID3592032
NOMBREHazel Pearson
NOMBRESHazel
APELLIDOPearson
FIRMAPEARSON H
AFILIACIONESQueen Mary University of London
ORCID0000-0002-3592-484X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS20
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H2

  • Swear(ING) ain't play(ING)

    Open AccessM Hunt, Colleen Cotter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2023Referencias: 47

    Swearwords influence social evaluation of a speaker in a variety of ways depending on social context (Jay & Janschewitz (2008), The pragmatics of swearing. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture , 4(2), 267–288). Little attention has been paid to the role of linguistic variation in social perceptions of swearing, however. This paper presents two experiments that test the role of sociolinguistic variation in the social evalua…

  • Excluded entailments and the de se/de re partition

    Open AccessHazel Pearson, Thomas Roeper et al.ARTICLEInquiry2022

    We show that some PRO-sentences (sentences containing an unpronounced subject in an infinitive clause) appear to receive de re interpretations when they occur in suitable discourse contexts or linguistic environments. This finding is surprising given the received view that such sentences are unambiguously de se [Morgan. 1970. “On the Criterion of Identity for Noun Phrase Deletion.” Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics…

  • Impersonal Pronouns and First-Person Perspective

    Open AccessHazel PearsonARTICLEAnnual Review of Linguistics2022Referencias: 3

    Impersonal pronouns are prototypically used in generic sentences to make generalizations about people. Yet they are unlike bare plural people or indefinite singular a person in that they exhibit a sensitivity to first-person perspective. This relationship can be seen in ( a) inferences of first-person experience associated with use of these pronouns, ( b) additional meaning components carried by impersonally used personal pronouns involving a pre…

  • Counterfactual de se

    Open AccessHazel PearsonARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2018

    This paper addresses a long-standing debate concerning the derivation of de se construals. One camp holds that there is a dedicated mechanism of ‘de se binding’, which results in a de se pronoun being interpreted as a variable ranging over the doxastic alternatives of the attitude holder (e.g. Chierchia 1990). Another treats de se as a special case of de re under the acquaintance relation of identity (e.g. Lewis 1979, Reinhart 1990). This debate …

  • The semantics of partial control

    Open AccessHazel PearsonARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…2016Citada por: 10Referencias: 38

  • The interpretation of the logophoric pronoun in Ewe

    Open AccessHazel PearsonARTICLENatural Language Semantics2015Citada por: 10Referencias: 19

    This paper presents novel data regarding the logophoric pronoun in Ewe. We show that, contrary to what had been assumed in the absence of the necessary fieldwork, Ewe logophors are not obligatorily interpreted de se. We discuss the prima facie rather surprising nature of this discovery given the assumptions that de se construals arise via binding of the pronoun by an abstraction operator in the left periphery of the clausal complement of an attit…

  • A Judge-Free Semantics for Predicates of Personal Taste

    Hazel PearsonARTICLEJournal of Semantics2013

    We offer a new account of the semantics of predicates of personal taste (PPTs) like tasty and fun which, unlike recent proposals (Lasersohn 2005; Stephenson 2007a, 2007b), does not appeal to a judge parameter as a component of the evaluation index. We identify empirical shortcomings of previous proposals, arguing that PPTs have a first-person-oriented meaning component even in cases that seem to involve an exocentric interpretation. We propose th…