This chapter reviews the research on multilingual adults' and children's comprehension of
non-literal meanings, an aspect of pragmatic competence that has been relatively well …

Conversational pragmatics is the study of language used in context, hence it goes beyond
linguistic knowledge, such as word meaning, to incorporate social context, speaker's …

Parallel to globalization, our world is becoming increasingly multilingual. We examined the
effect of multilingualism on irony comprehension, focusing on a specific type of multilinguals …

We investigated the effect of presenting items in a foreign language (L2) on scalar-
implicatures computation. To ensure that L2 processing was more effortful than the …

Upon hearing the phrase Some cats meow, a listener might pragmatically infer that 'Some
but not all cats meow'. This is known as a scalar implicature and it often arises when a …

Many studies report that the computation of scalar inferences, such as the inference from
'some'to 'not all', is cognitively costly. However, a number of studies on scalar inferences in …

Our study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of scalar implicatures some and
all. We set out to answer two research questions based on three theoretical accounts, the …

Using self-paced reading, the present study compared native English and adult L1-Korean–
L2-English speakers' processing behaviors during online comprehension of …

Most studies on the pragmatic interpretation of existential quantifiers have been conducted
in major Indo-European languages like English, Spanish, French, and Greek, focusing …

This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in
bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request …