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Title: The Role of Connectives and Stance Markers in the Processing of Subjective Causal Relations
Language: English
Authors: Wei, Yipu (ORCID 0000-0002-0128-4098), Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline, Sanders, Ted M., Mak, Willem M.
Source: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal. 2021 58(8):766-786.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 21
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse, Bias, Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Sentences, Connected Discourse, Language Usage, Verbs, Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese
DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2021.1893551
ISSN: 0163-853X
Abstract: Interpreting subjectivity in causal relations takes effort: Subjective, claim-argument relations are read slower than objective, cause-consequence relations. In an eye-tracking-while-reading experiment, we investigated whether connectives and stance markers can play a facilitative role. Sixty-five Chinese participants read sentences expressing a subjective causal relation, systematically varied in the use of stance markers (no, attitudinal, epistemic) in the first clause and connectives (neutral "suoyi" "so", subjective "kejian" "so") in the second clause. Results showed that processing subjectivity proceeds highly incrementally: The interplay of the subjectivity markers is visible as the sentence unfolds. Subjective connectives increased reading times, irrespective of the type of stance marker being used. Stance markers did, however, facilitate the processing of modal verbs in subjective relations. We conclude that processing subjectivity involves evaluating how the argument supports the claim and that connectives, modal verbs, and stance markers function as processing instructions that help readers achieve this evaluation.
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