Experimental pragmatics, risk communication, and reasoning
Last updated on
Nov 11, 2021

This research programme focuses on the pragmatic processes involved in communicating uncertainties, quantities and in logical reasoning. It includes experimental studies examining pragmatic influences on how people interpret verbal probabilities and quantifiers and how they draw inferences.
Uncertainty Communication
Experimental pragmatics
Gricean maxims
Verbal probabilities
Quantifiers
Politeness theory

Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau
Professor of Behavioural Science
My research focuses on understanding how people handle risk and uncertainty. How they perceive and communicate risks, how they make decisions in the face of uncertainty.
Publications
Verbal probabilities are a common mean for communicating risk and uncertainties in many decision-making settings (e.g., finance, …
Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, Tzur M. Karelitz, Gaëlle Villejoubert
Accounts of the scalar inference from ‘some X-ed’ to ‘not all X-ed’ are central to the debate between contemporary theories of …
Jean-François Bonnefon, Aidan Feeney, Gaëlle Villejoubert
When a statement about the occurrence of a medical condition is qualified by an expression of probability, such as the word possible, …
Jean-François Bonnefon, Gaëlle Villejoubert
We argue that logical expressions in human language enable speakers to perform particular acts as well as stating propositions which …
Denis Hilton, Gaëlle Villejoubert, Jean-François Bonnefon