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Implicature and Speech Act Analysis in Erbil City Courtroom Discourse
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesThis study investigates the use of implicature and speech acts in Erbil City courtroom. Implicature is the implied meaning in addition to literal meaning of expressions, while speech acts are communicative actions such as asserting, commanding, or ...
Gala Qasim Hasan +1 more
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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
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Open Linguistics, 2014 This paper considers the questions of translatability and expressive power. It is argued that truthconditional content is always translatable, and does not produce differences in expressive power.
McCready Eric
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Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert +2 more
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980 The various analyses for the subjunctive in Spanish that have been proposed can be classified into two major categories: syntactic and semantic. Syntactic analyses consist mainly of classifications of instances in which the subjunctive must be used ...
Solano, J. Miguel
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Intentionalism, anti‐intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 358-375, September 2026.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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IMPLICATURE IN GOVERNMENT SLOGANS [PDF]
, 2013 Abstrak. Penelitian ini membahas implikatur dalam sebelas slogan pemerintah yang dipajang di jalan-jalan utama Surabaya. Slogan yang umumnya mengandung kalimat-kalimat yang menarik dan dicetak dalam warna menantang memiliki makna atau pesan tersirat ...
Trisandi, Dedi
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It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures
, 2013 In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g.
Whiting, Daniel
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 500-516, June 2026.Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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