Esther Pascual
Biographic Data
| ID | 3812448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Pascual |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Pascual |
| SIGNATURE | PASCUAL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shanghai International Studies University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9463-3260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children
Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare
We analyze the theater performance of a dilemma enacted as dialogic solitude speech, involving fictive interaction ( Pascual 2002 , 2006 , 2014 ). The scene, from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , represents the conflicting thoughts of character Lancelet as clashing advice from two invisible interlocutors, i.e., Conscience and Fiend. The actor swiftly and constantly shifts viewpoint between the three, employing linguistic, vocal, gestural, s…
Do autistic children differ in language-mediated prediction
children. Past research exploring language-mediated anticipatory eye movements in autistic children, however, has been somewhat contradictory, with some studies finding normal anticipatory processing in autistic children with low levels of autistic traits but others observing weaker prediction effects in autistic children with less receptive language skills. Here we investigated language-mediated anticipatory eye movements in young children who d…
Restorative justice and terrorist crimes
In 2011, a pioneering experience of restorative justice was carried out in Spain through restorative encounters between individuals who had suffered the violence of the terrorist organization ETA and those who had exercised it. These encounters, unthinkable at first, were the seed of a practice that is currently becoming more frequent. This article offers a brief introduction outlining the differences between retributive and restorative justice a…
Viewpointed morphology
Spanish verb-complement (VC) compounds, one of the most common compound types in Spanish, raise interesting questions, because they are inflected, prototypically containing a verb in the third-person singular of the present indicative. This complexity seems paradoxical, given the strong restrictions of Romance languages on word compounding. Based on a self-compiled corpus of over 1,400 VC compounds, we show that the compound’s verb may display di…
Literacy improves the comprehension of object relatives
Debate with zhuangzi
This study deals with the use of expository questions as discourse strategy in Zhuangzi (4 th c. B.C.), a foundational text of Daoism. We treat this particular type of non-information-seeking questions (e.g. “ Why? Because...”) as a manifestation of conversational monologues, which are themselves fictive kinds of interactions between the original writer and subsequent reader(s) (Pascual 2002, 2014). We further analyze expository questions as cons…
Who’s speaking for whom
This paper deals with rhetorically intended questions in the Zhuangzi , a foundational text of Daoism (fourth century bc ). Such questions are generally meant to evoke silent answers in the addressee’s mind, thereby involving a fictive type of interaction ( Pascual 2006 , 2014 ). We analyse rhetorical questions as constructions of intersubjectivity (see Verhagen 2005 , 2008 ), involving not just a conceptual integration of question and assertion …
Syntactic priming in illiterate and literate older Chinese adults
Mixed metaphors
If Lakoff and Johnson (1980) convinced us of the ubiquity of metaphors in everyday thought and language, with Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, Karen Sullivan shows us that mixing conceptual me
In the beginning there was conversation
This paper explores the use of non-quotational direct speech – a construction displaying deictic perspective persistence – in the Hebrew Bible, an ancient text of great cultural significance. We focus on the use of non-quotational direct speech to introduce intentions, hopes, motives, or states of affairs. Special emphasis is laid on the complementizer lemor , grammaticalized from a speaking verb, which introduces the import of an action through …
When “Goal!” means ‘soccer’
Autism is characterized by repetitive behavior and difficulties in adopting the viewpoint of others. We examine a communicative phenomenon resulting from these symptoms: non-prototypical direct speech for non-reports involving an actual utterance from previously produced discourse (e.g. quoting somebody’s words to refer to them, Pascual 2014 ). We video-recorded the naturalistic speech of five Brazilian children with autism, five typically develo…
Direct speech compounds
This paper examines English nominal compounds whose modifier could serve as a self-sufficient discourse unit (e.g. “ Hi honey, I'm home happiness,” “ ‘not happy, money back’ guarantee”). The scant literature on the construction treats such modifiers as embedded sentences, clauses, or phrases. Drawing on a collection of over 7,000 different examples from written as well as oral English of various dialects and registers, we suggest that regardless …
Questions in legal monologues
In the adversarial legal system, talk-in-interaction is extremely fixed and regulated. Such rigidity motivates the emergence of what may be termed ‘fictive interaction’ (Pascual 2002). This constitutes a conceptual channel of communication underlying the observable interaction between participants. Regardless of its overt interactional structure (monologue, dialogue), I assume that Western courtroom communication typically involves an implicit tr…
Fictive interaction within the sentence
This paper examines the intersection of language, interaction and cognition. Specifically, a communicative type of fictivity is discussed, which I call fictive verbal interaction or simply fictive interaction (Pascual 2002). This constitutes a self-sufficient discourse unit conceptualized within a non-factive communicative occurrence, which functions syntactically and semantically as a grammatical constituent. Attested examples at different synta…
Imaginary Trialogues
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and its accompanying guidelines introduced a special safeguard for 'vulnerable' suspects, such as adults with learning disabilities (sometimes known as 'intellectual' or 'developmental' disabilities), during police detention and interviewing. The stated reason for the introduction of this safeguard is that such persons may be 'particularly prone in certain circumstances to provide information which…
Interrogatives in the Field
This paper deals with the use of imaginary or fictive questions as argumentative devices that can structure on-line discourse and reasoning in legal settings. The theoretical perspective used is the theory of conceptual integration networks or conceptual blending (Fauconnier & Turner 1996, 1998, 2002)
Fictive interaction within the sentence
This paper examines the intersection of language, interaction and cognition. Specifically, a communicative type of fictivity is discussed, which I call fictive verbal interaction or simply fictive interaction (Pascual 2002). This constitutes a self-sufficient discourse unit conceptualized within a non-factive communicative occurrence, which functions syntactically and semantically as a grammatical constituent. Attested examples at different synta…
Syntactic priming in illiterate and literate older Chinese adults
Interrogatives in the Field
This paper deals with the use of imaginary or fictive questions as argumentative devices that can structure on-line discourse and reasoning in legal settings. The theoretical perspective used is the theory of conceptual integration networks or conceptual blending (Fauconnier & Turner 1996, 1998, 2002)
Imaginary Trialogues
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and its accompanying guidelines introduced a special safeguard for 'vulnerable' suspects, such as adults with learning disabilities (sometimes known as 'intellectual' or 'developmental' disabilities), during police detention and interviewing. The stated reason for the introduction of this safeguard is that such persons may be 'particularly prone in certain circumstances to provide information which…
Questions in legal monologues
In the adversarial legal system, talk-in-interaction is extremely fixed and regulated. Such rigidity motivates the emergence of what may be termed ‘fictive interaction’ (Pascual 2002). This constitutes a conceptual channel of communication underlying the observable interaction between participants. Regardless of its overt interactional structure (monologue, dialogue), I assume that Western courtroom communication typically involves an implicit tr…
Fictive interaction within the sentence
This paper examines the intersection of language, interaction and cognition. Specifically, a communicative type of fictivity is discussed, which I call fictive verbal interaction or simply fictive interaction (Pascual 2002). This constitutes a self-sufficient discourse unit conceptualized within a non-factive communicative occurrence, which functions syntactically and semantically as a grammatical constituent. Attested examples at different synta…
Direct speech compounds
This paper examines English nominal compounds whose modifier could serve as a self-sufficient discourse unit (e.g. “ Hi honey, I'm home happiness,” “ ‘not happy, money back’ guarantee”). The scant literature on the construction treats such modifiers as embedded sentences, clauses, or phrases. Drawing on a collection of over 7,000 different examples from written as well as oral English of various dialects and registers, we suggest that regardless …
When “Goal!” means ‘soccer’
Autism is characterized by repetitive behavior and difficulties in adopting the viewpoint of others. We examine a communicative phenomenon resulting from these symptoms: non-prototypical direct speech for non-reports involving an actual utterance from previously produced discourse (e.g. quoting somebody’s words to refer to them, Pascual 2014 ). We video-recorded the naturalistic speech of five Brazilian children with autism, five typically develo…
Mixed metaphors
If Lakoff and Johnson (1980) convinced us of the ubiquity of metaphors in everyday thought and language, with Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, Karen Sullivan shows us that mixing conceptual me
In the beginning there was conversation
This paper explores the use of non-quotational direct speech – a construction displaying deictic perspective persistence – in the Hebrew Bible, an ancient text of great cultural significance. We focus on the use of non-quotational direct speech to introduce intentions, hopes, motives, or states of affairs. Special emphasis is laid on the complementizer lemor , grammaticalized from a speaking verb, which introduces the import of an action through …
Syntactic priming in illiterate and literate older Chinese adults
Literacy improves the comprehension of object relatives
Debate with zhuangzi
This study deals with the use of expository questions as discourse strategy in Zhuangzi (4 th c. B.C.), a foundational text of Daoism. We treat this particular type of non-information-seeking questions (e.g. “ Why? Because...”) as a manifestation of conversational monologues, which are themselves fictive kinds of interactions between the original writer and subsequent reader(s) (Pascual 2002, 2014). We further analyze expository questions as cons…
Who’s speaking for whom
This paper deals with rhetorically intended questions in the Zhuangzi , a foundational text of Daoism (fourth century bc ). Such questions are generally meant to evoke silent answers in the addressee’s mind, thereby involving a fictive type of interaction ( Pascual 2006 , 2014 ). We analyse rhetorical questions as constructions of intersubjectivity (see Verhagen 2005 , 2008 ), involving not just a conceptual integration of question and assertion …
Do autistic children differ in language-mediated prediction
children. Past research exploring language-mediated anticipatory eye movements in autistic children, however, has been somewhat contradictory, with some studies finding normal anticipatory processing in autistic children with low levels of autistic traits but others observing weaker prediction effects in autistic children with less receptive language skills. Here we investigated language-mediated anticipatory eye movements in young children who d…
Restorative justice and terrorist crimes
In 2011, a pioneering experience of restorative justice was carried out in Spain through restorative encounters between individuals who had suffered the violence of the terrorist organization ETA and those who had exercised it. These encounters, unthinkable at first, were the seed of a practice that is currently becoming more frequent. This article offers a brief introduction outlining the differences between retributive and restorative justice a…
Viewpointed morphology
Spanish verb-complement (VC) compounds, one of the most common compound types in Spanish, raise interesting questions, because they are inflected, prototypically containing a verb in the third-person singular of the present indicative. This complexity seems paradoxical, given the strong restrictions of Romance languages on word compounding. Based on a self-compiled corpus of over 1,400 VC compounds, we show that the compound’s verb may display di…
Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare
We analyze the theater performance of a dilemma enacted as dialogic solitude speech, involving fictive interaction ( Pascual 2002 , 2006 , 2014 ). The scene, from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , represents the conflicting thoughts of character Lancelet as clashing advice from two invisible interlocutors, i.e., Conscience and Fiend. The actor swiftly and constantly shifts viewpoint between the three, employing linguistic, vocal, gestural, s…
Formula Production and its Relation to General Language Ability in Mandarin-Speaking Autistic Children
Psychology (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)