Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages by Alessandro Capone Manuel García-Carpintero & Alessandra Falzone

Author:Alessandro Capone, Manuel García-Carpintero & Alessandra Falzone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

7 A note on the speech act variable

The question of whether the number of alternative antecedents has an effect on the modalised reports of conditionals was the main research question in this study. However, because our participants were working with conditional advice and conditional inducements across both conditions, I and II, in both experiments, it is also relevant to ask whether the speech act variable had any effect on the modalised formulation choices.

A Fisher’s Exact test also revealed a reliable difference in preferred response to the question – i.e. could, should, or have to – between participants in the advice conditions and those in the inducement conditions: Scenarios 1A and 2A (p = 0.002), Scenarios 1B and 2B (p = 0.005), Scenarios 3A and 4A (p < 0.001), and Scenarios 3B and 4B (p < 0.001) (see Table 8). Table 8Choices of modalised reports by speech act

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