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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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Indirect Speech Act as a Linguistic and Social and Cultural Phenomenon
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2017 In this article we analyze as the problem of distinguishing direct / indirect speech act nomination is covered in linguistic pragmatics and language philosophy. The Semantic nature of indirect speech acts is revealed based on the theory of illocution and
Kirill S. Neustroev
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Does reflection reduce the epistemic side‐effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 88-118, February 2026.The epistemic side‐effect effect consists of an asymmetric pattern of knowledge attributions in harm and help cases, paralleling the Knobe effect for intentionality attributions. Error‐based accounts suggest the asymmetries arise from performance errors in harm cases. We challenge this claim with three new experimental studies designed to reduce errors.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz +3 more
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in defense of a presuppositional account of slurs [PDF]
, 2015 In the last fifteen years philosophers and linguists have turned their attention to slurs: derogatory expressions that target certain groups on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality and so on.
Cepollaro, Bianca
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Conversational Implicture in Inception Movie Dialogue [PDF]
, 2014 This study dealt with Conversational Implicature in Inception Movie Dialogue. The objectives of this study were to find out the most dominant types of Conversational Implicature and the meaning of each implicature.
Sigalingging, H. N. (Handrian) +1 more
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It's not what you expected! The surprising nature of cleft alternatives in French and English [PDF]
, 2019 While much prior literature on the meaning of clefts—such as the English form “it is X who Z-ed”—concentrates on the nature and status of the exhaustivity inference (“nobody/nothing other than X Z”), we report on experiments examining the role of the ...
Beaver, David +2 more
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Sorries seem to have the harder words
British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 757-769, November 2025.Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BANYUMASAN CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES [PDF]
, 2012 To mean what you say is sometimes problematic in daily conversation, moreover in some indigenous dialects. It requires comprehensive context to achieve the core of communication. So does in Banyumasan.
Hadiati , Chusni
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