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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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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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Reasons Behind Mis/Understanding English Conversational Implicatures by University Learners in Yemen
, 2021 Haifa Nassar
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Fictional Sentences and the Pragmatic Defence of Direct Reference Theories
Studia Semiotyczne, 2020 DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxiii2.09 According to Adams and his colleagues, fictional sentences, i.e. sentences featuring fictional names, lack any truth value.
Tomasz Puczyłowski
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Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 The standard Gricean defense of Russell in the face of referential uses of descriptions has been to claim that these uses are conversational implicatures.
Michael Devitt
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Conversational Implicature in Montague Grammar
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2014 Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp.
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A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF MUSTOFA BISRI’S POEM “SIAPAMENYURUH?” [PDF]
, 2012 This article presents an interpretive study of “Siapa Menyuruh?”, a poem by Indonesia’s contemporary poet Mustofa Bisri. The study is carried out within the framework of Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory (RT), which is based on the principles that ...
Candria, Mytha
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Stylistic Features: Conversational Implicature of the Poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
, 2022 Ni Kadek Dwi Rahayu
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Constructions, pragmatics and modality [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2013 This paper rejects the commonplace view that the semantics of certain modal deverbal adjectives (MDAs), which have traditionally been assumed to be non-compositional, require complex lexical or syntactic encoding (cf. e.g.
Antonio Fortin
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Objectionable thick concepts in denials [PDF]
, 2009 So-called "thick" moral concepts are distinctive in that they somehow "hold together" evaluation and description. But how? This paper argues against the standard view that the evaluations which thick concepts may be used to convey belong to sense or ...
Väyrynen, Pekka
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