R2.11 - recommendations: clear up empathy as pragmatic skill

[jvcasillas]

p. 9 line 4 - has empathy been “operationalized as pragmatic skill” in the past? Is it really possible to say that they are the same thing, vs. one leading to the other?

Action: Yes, refer reviewer to D'Imperio studies, but also think about this cause it keeps coming up. (see also https://github.com/RAP-group/empathy_intonation_perc/issues/46)

[juanjgarridop]

We could respond to this comment using the information in my comments in issues #46 and #61.

We can say:

Esteve Gibert et al. (2020) treat empathy as a pragmatic skill. They state, "Empathy is part of the set of pragmatic abilities that is generally known as theory of mind (ToM), mind reading, mentalizing, or perspective-taking (Baron-Cohen, 2011; Carruthers, 2009; Frith & Frith, 2003)." (p. 566). They add, "Empathy is part of the set of pragmatic abilities that enable listeners to understand the communicative intentions and feelings behind the interlocutor’s words (Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004)." (p. 577). Our study builds upon the findings of Esteve Gibert et al. (2020); therefore, we treat empathy as a pragmatic skill to be consistent with previous research.

[jvcasillas]

Response added via https://github.com/RAP-group/empathy_intonation_perc/pull/69

We have responded with more detail to this issue above. To the point brought up here, indeed, there is a line a research that operationalizes empathy as a pragmatic skill [See @baron2004empathy; @baron2011zero; @carruthers2009we; @esteve2020empathy; @frith2003development, among others].