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Researcher

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Awards & Distinctions

38 Results

2023

Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints

Nicolas RuytenbeekSofie DecockIlse Depraetere

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF POLITENESS RESEARCH-LANGUAGE BEHAVIOUR CULTURE

Psychophysiological effects of evaluative language use on Twitter complaints and compliments

Nicolas RuytenbeekJens AllaertMarie-Anne Vanderhasselt

A2 Journal Article in INTERNET PRAGMATICS

The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers : an experimental approach

Nicolas RuytenbeekSofie DecockIlse Depraetere

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF POLITENESS RESEARCH-LANGUAGE BEHAVIOUR CULTURE

2022

'Bitte entschuldigen Sie das späte Antwort' : in hoeverre worden conventionele uitdrukkingen met fouten in zakelijke e-mails als ‘fit for purpose’ beschouwd?

Griet BooneSofie DecockNicolas Ruytenbeek

The message is clear : an L1 business perspective on non-target-like formulaic expressions in L2 German

Griet BooneNicolas RuytenbeekSofie Decock

A1 Journal Article in INTERCULTURAL PRAGMATICS

2021

Exploring the impact of platforms' affordances on the expression of negativity in online hotel reviews

Nicolas RuytenbeekMarie VerschraegenSofie Decock

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS

Fit for purpose? Exploring the effect of erroneous conventional expressions in business communication

Griet BooneSofie DecockNicolas Ruytenbeek

How does complaint realization affect third parties? A psychophysiological study of the emotional correlates of Twitter complaints

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Indirect speech acts

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Linguistic (in)directness in Twitter complaints : a contrastive analysis of railway complaint interactions

Ilse DepraetereSofie DecockNicolas Ruytenbeek

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS

Negativity and narrativity in online hotel reviews : does the platform matter?

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

2020

Do indirect requests communicate politeness? An experimental study of conventionalized indirect requests in French email communication

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF POLITENESS RESEARCH-LANGUAGE BEHAVIOUR CULTURE

Giora, Rachel and Michael Haugh (eds.). 2017. Doing pragmatics interculturally. Cognitive, philosophical and sociopragmatic perspectives. Berlin and Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, xii + 420 pp., Hardback ISBN 978-3-11-054384-1. Price: Hb GBP £ 91/€ 99.95

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Negated contrary adjectives : disentangling negative strengthening from linguistic acceptability

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

2019

Analyzing linguistic in/directness and perceived face-threat in complaint interactions : the development of an annotation guide

Nicolas RuytenbeekSofie DecockIlse Depraetere

Current issues in the ontology and form of directive speech acts : A critical assessment of recent cognitive linguistic approaches

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

A2 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PRAGMATICS

Indirect requests, relevance, and politeness

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS

Lexical and morpho-syntactic modification of student requests : an empirical contribution to the study of im/politeness in French e-mail speech acts

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

A2 Journal Article in LEXIQUE

Method triangulation in discourse-pragmatic research on complaints

Nicolas RuytenbeekSofie DecockIlse Depraetere

What makes a complaint im/polite? An experimental study of the influence of verbal modification on affective responses to online complaints

Nicolas RuytenbeekSofie DecockIlse Depraetere

2018

Force exertion and directive speech acts

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Selective pragmatic impairment in autism spectrum disorder : indirect requests versus irony

Gaétane DeliensFanny PapastamouNicolas RuytenbeekPhilippine GeelhandMikhail Kissine

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

2017

Asymmetric inference towards the antonym : experiments into the polarity and morphology of negated adjectives

Nicolas RuytenbeekSteven VerheyenBenjamin Spector

A2 Journal Article in GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS

Can you : a directive construction?

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Indirect request processing, sentence types and illocutionary forces

Nicolas RuytenbeekEkaterina OstashchenkoMikhail Kissine

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS

The comprehension of indirect requests : previous work and future directions

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Bookchapter in Semantics and pragmatics : drawing a line

The mechanics of indirectness : a case study of directive speech acts

Nicolas RuytenbeekMikhail Kissine

What is a directive speech act? : A force dynamic account of the category of directives

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Why are imperative sentences a convenient means to perform directives? : A force dynamic account of imperative sentences

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

2016

Eye-tracking experiments into the processing of verbal instructions in French

Nicolas RuytenbeekEkaterina OstashchenkoMikhail Kissine

2015

Illocutionary acts and sentence-types

Nicolas RuytenbeekMikhail Kissine

2014

Are indirect speech acts always conventional?

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Bookchapter in Cognitive and pragmatic aspects of speech actions

2013

L’adverbe justement et l’argumentation implicite

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Negated gradable adjectives : the role of positivity and morphology on the inference towards the antonym

Nicolas RuytenbeekBenjamin Spector

2012

Are indirect speech acts always conventional?

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Interpreting standardized indirect requests from a relevance theoretic perspective

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

A2 Journal Article in PAPERS OF THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF BELGIUM

Relevance theory and indirect speech acts

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Relevance theory and standardized indirect speech acts

Nicolas Ruytenbeek