ViCom Junior Fellow

Vinicius Macuch Silva is interested in how people use language to create meaning in communication, both when interacting with one another and when producing and interpreting language in various other settings. In his research he primarily uses quantitative empirical methods, including controlled experimentation as well as computational and corpus analysis, to investigate issues related to pragmatic inferencing, strategic communication, argumentation and stance-taking, as well as expressive and affective meaning. 

Selected publications

• Macuch-Silva, V., Lorson, A., Franke, M., Cummins, C., & Winter, B. (2024). Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information. Discourse Processes. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2413311
• Lorson, A., Macuch-Silva, V., Hart, C., & Winter, B. (2024). Gesture size affects numerical estimates in quantifier comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001372
• Macuch-Silva, V., & Franke, M. (2021). Pragmatic Prediction in the Processing of Referring Expressions Containing Scalar Quantifiers. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662050
• Macuch-Silva, V., Holler, J., Özyürek, A., & Roberts, S. (2020). Multimodality and the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction. Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.182056
• Jamieson, E, & Macuch-Silva, V. (joint first authors, to appear). Psycholinguistic processing tasks and the study of question bias. In Benz, A., Krifka, M., Trinh, T. and Yatushiro, K. (eds.) Biased Questions: Experimental Results and Theoretical Modelling.