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Trott, Sean; Bergen, Benjamin – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
People often speak indirectly. For example, "It's cold in here" might be intended not only as a comment on the temperature but also as a request to turn on the heater. How are comprehenders' inferences about a speaker's intentions informed by their ability to reason about the speaker's mental states, that is, "mentalizing?" We…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Guidelines, Correlation, Inferences