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Indicatives, subjunctives, and the falsity of the antecedent
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Communicating and reasoning with verbal probability expressions
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Abstract:
We frequently communicate risk and uncertainty with verbal probability expressions (VPE): expressions such as "unlikely", "possible", and "likely". Such expressions are, it is believed, so vaguely understood that there is an "illusion of communication": speaker and hearer believe that they understand each other but, in fact, do not. In this chapter we question the strength of the evidence for the illusion of communication, and argue that the literature on VPEs has neglected the social and communicative contexts of communicating and reasoning with verbal probability expressions. We call on research on meaning in its social and communicative contexts - on natural-language pragmatics. We use this work to discuss existing research. Studying the social and communicative context may provide a route to revealing genuine, meaningful communication about risk and uncertainty. Future research of this kind may help to improve the communication of risk and uncertainty.
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BF Psychology
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2018.10.003 http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28094/
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Linguistic change in a multilingual setting : a case study of quotatives in Indian English
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Relative clauses in Australian English: a cross-varietal diachronic study
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The Present Perfect in English: Meaning, Interpretation and Use
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Cooperation, innovation and the competitiveness of Chinese enterprise clusters
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Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English : grammar and beyond
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The use of articles in inner and outer circle varieties of English: a comparative corpus-based study
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Mobilising action through management email texts: the negotiation of evaluative stance through choices in discourse and grammar
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From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson: exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality
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Functional and structural: The practicalities of clause knowledge in language education
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