Failures of Gricean reasoning and the role of stereotypes in the production of gender marking in French

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ID22130648
AuthorsCéline Pozniak (0000-0002-9664-1659, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Heather Burnett (0000-0002-7389-0679, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Year2021
Volume6
Issue1
Publication date2021-04-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835
PublisherOpen Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5334/gjgl.1310
OpenAlexW3152639875
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited32

We partly replicate von der Malsburg et al. (2020)’s recent experiments investigating the relationship between speaker expectations, gender stereotypes and language use in English on a grammatical gender language: French. The results of our experiment show how the linguistic particularities of the English and French gender marking systems interact with speaker expectations and stereotypes to create different patterns of gender marking production. They also raise a puzzle for current theoretical and computational frameworks that formalize Gricean pragmatics, particularly those in which informativity (Gricean Quantity) is assumed to play a driving role in linguisticproduction

Cognitive psychology · Grammatical Gender · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Replicate · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology

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