نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 گروه زبان شناسی، دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه تربیت ندرس، تهران ایران
2 دانشگاه تربیت مدرس
3 گروه مدیریت کسب و کار، دانشگاه علم و صنعت، تهران، ایران
4 گروه زبان شناسی، دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه تربیت مدرس، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژه‌ها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
This article investigates how native Persian speakers process and comprehend affirmative and negative discoursal causal assertions. To examine this, an eye-tracking experiment was conducted with 30 male and female Persian-speaking participants. The main experiment involved 32 Persian vignettes, each containing three sentences: an opening sentence, a target sentence (affirmative or negative discoursal causal), and a concluding sentence. The polarity of target and concluding sentences was manipulated within participants. When participants heard an affirmative discoursal causal sentence (e.g., “Because my skin was dry, I applied moisturizer”), they primarily fixated on the factual phrase (“applying moisturizer”), while the conjectural phrase received little to no attention. A similar pattern was observed for negative assertions (e.g., “Because my skin was not dry, I did not apply moisturizer”), where participants focused on the factual phrase (“not applying moisturizer”), largely ignoring the conjecture. Fixation data confirmed that factual phrases consistently received more attention than conjectural ones during early processing stages. In the final analysis, the effect of specificity on fixation patterns was tested. Results showed that specificity did not significantly influence early or increased attention to factual content in either polarity condition. Overall, the findings align with Mental Model Theory, emphasizing the cognitive priority given to factual representations.
کلیدواژه‌ها [English]
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