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‘Ought Implies Can’: Not So Pragmatic After All [PDF]
, 2017 Those who want to deny the ‘ought implies can’ principle often turn to weakened views to explain ‘ought implies can’ phenomena. The two most common versions of such views are that ‘ought’ presupposes ‘can’, and that ‘ought’ conversationally implicates ...
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The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants
Developmental Neurobiology, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Recent investigations have shown that the neural processing of linguistic content may interact with social cognition. Specifically, semantic processing, as reflected by the N400 event‐related potential, appears to be sensitive to manipulations of Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental content to social partners.
Bálint Forgács +6 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 123-134, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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The Study of Implicature Used by the Host and Jaya Suprana in ”Kick Andy Show”;kelirumologiepisode [PDF]
, 2015 Keywords: implicature, Kick Andy Show, kelirumologi Consciously or not, ideal communication does not always happen in conversation. It may lead to what is called implicature.
HIDAYAT, F. M. (FADIL)
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 261-281, April 2026.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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On the Foundations of Conversational Implicature
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1990 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp.
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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In Defense of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Bambi Sentences
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 1-9, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the debate surrounding bound uses of names. My primary aim is to argue that bound interpretations of names do not provide evidence that names semantically have bound uses. I begin by outlining the motivation for the view that names do have semantic bound uses, then offer several reasons to reject this view.
Seong Soo Park
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HUMOR IN JALAN PINGGIR CRITICISM COLUMN IN SILATURAHIM RUBRIC SUARA MUHAMMADIYAH MAGAZINE (A PRAGMATIC STUDY) [PDF]
, 2011 In human life, human beings will not be separated from problems, any time man strives to get trough the problem, ranging from minor problems in life, to the tragedy that changed someone’s life, this thesis tells about a character named Andrew Laeddis is ...
HANDAYANI, NITA DIAN
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