First things first: Order bias in deontic disjunctions

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-401

  Elqayam, Shira ^a   Ohm, Eyvind ^b   Evans, Jonathan St B T ^c   Over, David E ^d  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deontic reasoning; Disjunctions; Maxim of manner; Maxim of orderliness; Order bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; CRITICAL THINKING; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; ORDER BIAS; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77951168271     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903148987     Document Type: Article

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