Alexandra Besoi Setzer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexandra Besoi Setzer is involved.
Articles
2023 Texting!!!: Attributions of gender and friendliness to texters who use exclamation marks Interaction Studies 24:3, pp. 422–436 | Article
Previous research shows that females use more exclamation marks than males, often to establish rapport. The purpose of the present studies was to test whether people associate texters’ use of exclamation marks with friendliness and femaleness. If this association is due to normative… read more
2021 In the ear of the beholder: How ethnicity of raters affects the perception of a foreign accent Pragmatics of Accents, Planchenault, Gaëlle and Livia Poljak (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Chapter
In the present study, we tested whether a foreign accent activated different stereotypes, depending on the listener. Here, we explore whether ethnicity of a rater affects the perceived intelligence of a doctor speaking English with a Chinese accent vs. a doctor speaking English with a standard… read more

