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Citations
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World Ranking
6285
National Ranking
3006

Overview

Istvan Kecskes is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Within these broad areas, their work focuses extensively on subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics related to language and communication. Notable themes in their work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Discourse Analysis in Language Studies; Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation; Linguistics and Discourse Analysis; linguistics and terminology studies; and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility.

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • Processing implicatures in English as a Lingua Franca communication, 2021, Lingua
  • Intercultural Communication and our Understanding of Language, 2021, Langages
  • Comparative Analysis of Drought Effects on the Soil Moisture Level and Penetration Resistance in Conventional and Non-Conventional Tillage Systems in Maize Production, 2024, Agriculture
  • Language variation and temporary norm development in intercultural interactions, 2023, Pragmatics & Cognition
  • Impact of tillage systems on maize emergence, 2023, Acta Agraria Debreceniensis

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors including István Sojnóczki, János Nagy, Árpád Illés, Csaba Bojtor, and Levente Horváth.

Noteworthy publication venues where their work appears include Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, Lingua, Langages, Agriculture, and Pragmatics & Cognition.

Istvan Kecskes has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer International Publishing: The Socio-Cognitive Approach to Communication and Pragmatics (2023).

Best Publications

  • Dueling contexts: A dynamic model of meaning

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Foreign language and mother tongue

    István Kecskés;Tünde Papp

  • Activating, seeking, and creating common ground: a socio-cognitive approach

    Istvan Kecskes;Fenghui Zhang

  • A cognitive-pragmatic approach to situation-bound utterances

    Istvan Kecskés

  • The paradox of communication: Socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Situation-bound utterances as pragmatic acts

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Conceptual fluency and the use of situation-bound utterances in L2

    Istvan Kecskes

  • On my mind: thoughts about salience, context and figurative language from a second language perspective

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Dual and Multilanguage Systems.

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Editorial: Lexical merging, conceptual blending, and cultural crossing

    Istvan Kecskes

  • COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM

    Istvan Kecskes;Liliana Albertazzi

  • Intercultural impoliteness

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  • The state of L1 knowledge in foreign language learners

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Pragmemes and theories of language use

    Keith Allan;Alessandro Capone;Istvan Kecskes

  • Intracultural Communication and Intercultural Communication: Are They Different?

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Explorations in pragmatics : linguistic, cognitive and intercultural aspects

    István Kecskés;Laurence R. Horn

  • Intention, common ground and the egocentric speaker-hearer

    István Kecskés;Jacob Mey

  • Bilingual Figurative Language Processing: Is the Idiom Principle Blocked in Bilingual L2 Production?

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  • Is there anyone out there who really is interested in the speaker

    Istvan Kecskes

  • How does pragmatic competence develop in bilinguals

    Istvan Kecskes

  • Why do we say what we say the way we say it

    Istvan Kecskes

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence R. Horn
Laurence R. Horn Yale University
Douglas Walton
Douglas Walton University of Windsor

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