Argumentative language - listener side

This study is a follow-up designed to complement previous experiments conducted as part of the same research project. While those earlier studies focused on the speaker’s perspective—alongside a computational model of language production—this study shifts attention to the listener’s side. Specifically, we examine whether listeners can (1) detect the use of argumentative language, (2) distinguish between different argumentative strategies (low vs. high framing) and (3) infer the speaker’s communicative intentions behind utterances. To address these questions, we construct our experimental items in a model-driven, Bayesian manner, consistent with the posterior predictions from our previous modelling analyses with production models. In a forced-choice task, participants will judge which type of speaker (e.g., informative vs. argumentative) is more likely to have produced a given utterance within a specific context.