Classic clickbait headlines often use hyperbolic and formulaic language to create
information gaps that arouse the curiosity of readers. Such headlines are stylistically distinct …

Can an emoji be a lie? Recent research has emphasized the importance of commitment in
theories of lying, proposing that a speaker will only have lied if they are committed to the …

Previous studies have shown that when interpreting scalar terms like quantifiers (eg, some)
and probability expressions (eg, possibly), recipients tend to take into account the speaker's …

People often deny having meant what the audience understood. Such denials occur in both
interpersonal and institutional contexts, such as in political discourse, the interpretation of …

Dialogue involves a complex negotiation of commitments, wherein listeners interpret and
determine the speaker's degree of commitment to inferred meanings. In the current study, we …

(Tanduk, 2023). Crozet (2003) suggested that “pragmatics involves some of the rules that
govern interactions, but these rules are not immediately obvious and are instead referred to …

People rely on others often and for many things. Friends rely on each other showing up on
time when they meet; colleagues rely on other colleagues to do their part of the job; and, in …