Abstract
Johnson-Laird and Byrne proposed in 2002 that, beyond the two traditional interpretations that are assigned to if, that is, the material and the biconditional ones, eight more combinations of possibilities related to their meaning can be attributed to this kind of sentences. The initial hypothesis in the present study is that not all of those ten interpretations should be usual in academic texts, since some of them resort, for example, to figurative language or irony. In this way, a study of a psychology paper is carried out in order to check that hypothesis. The results are that, at least in that paper, the uses of if tend to be linked to the interpretation that both Johnson-Laird and Byrne and the literature in general relate to the biconditional.
Highlights
JohnsonLaird and Byrne (2002) showed, under the framework of the theory of mental models (e.g., KHEMLANI; JOHNSONLAIRD, 2019), that it is possible to think about ten interpretations for the conditional, that is, for the sentences includingAUFKLÄRUNG, João Pessoa, v.7, n.2, Mai.,Ago., 2020, p.1122Miguel LópezAstorga if
This means that, in addition to the material one and the biconditional one, which are the interpretations classically more linked to this type of sentences in logic, people can use them with eight more senses
The idea is basically to identify all of the cases in which if appears in it in order to discover which of the ten interpretations provided by JohnsonLaird and Byrne (2002) corresponds to each of these appearances
Summary
JohnsonLaird and Byrne (2002) showed, under the framework of the theory of mental models (e.g., KHEMLANI; JOHNSONLAIRD, 2019), that it is possible to think about ten interpretations (understood as semantic combinations of possibilities) for the conditional, that is, for the sentences including. This means that, in addition to the material one and the biconditional one, which are the interpretations classically more linked to this type of sentences in logic, people can use them with eight more senses. One might suspect that, given that some of the interpretations refer to elements such as irony, double meanings, or metaphors, all of them may not be used in all of the communicative situations. In this way, this paper is aimed to check this last point with regard to academia.
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