This study investigated the correlation between vocabulary knowledge and reading
comprehension. To address the correlation picture under Chinese logographical scripts, the …

In this introduction to the special issue on “Attitudinal Interrogatives in Interactive Talk”, we
review previous studies on the non-interrogative uses of 'question-word'constructions in …

This study explores interactional uses of mwusun ('what','what kind') utterances in naturally
occurring Korean conversation and how prosody and sequential location contribute to its …

Based on data obtained from Cantonese corpora and interactions in everyday contexts, this
paper identifies and analyzes the range of pragmatic functions that the interrogative pronoun …

This study examines the referential and nonreferential uses of unsa 'what'expressions in
Cebuano, including accompanying enclitics, if any, the kind of context or situation in which …

This paper examines the patterns of occurrence of the Tagalog question word ano 'what'in
natural conversation. Contextual analysis of approximately 6 h of transcribed conversational …

This paper examines how 'what'-words extend from referential to non-referential uses, with
special attention to their extensions from indefinite and interrogative pronominal uses to …

When a communicator faces a word-formulation problem, they may use a placeholder (PH)
such as whatchamacallit to avoid producing a target expression or to delay it. A PH is a …

This paper aims to explore the generalization of address terms in online discourse, a largely
unheeded pragmatic phenomenon. Taking the generalized Chinese kinship term “son”(érzi) …

A speaker/writer uses a placeholder (PH) to fill in the syntactic slot of a target word when she
has no immediate access to the word or prefers to avoid explicitly mentioning it for …