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Direct linkVinicius Macuch Silva; Alexandra Lorson; Michael Franke; Chris Cummins; Bodo Winter – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study investigates how quantifiers are used strategically to serve different argumentative goals. We report two experiments on how English speakers describe the results of school exams when being instructed to frame their descriptions either as a good or bad outcome. Experiment 1 shows that participants have clear preferences for specific…
Descriptors: English, Language Usage, Bias, Semantics
