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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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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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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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Is Metalinguistic Usage a Conversational Implicature?
Topoi, 2023 AbstractI argue against the view that metalinguistic usage is a form of conversational implicature. That view, suggested by Thomasson (Anal Philos 57(4):1-28, 2016) and Belleri (Philos Stud 174(9):2211–2226, 2017), has been most recently fleshed out by Mankowitz (Synthese 199:5603–5622, 2021).
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‘But’ implicatures: a study of the effect of working memory and argument characteristics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 This study aimed to investigate the possible cognitive costs involved in processing the implicatures from but and the conclusion introducing words so and nevertheless.
Leen Janssens, Walter Schaeken
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Rapid Access to Scalar Implicatures in Adjacency Pair Contexts: Experimental Evidence in Spanish
Languages, 2019 A conversational implicature arises when there is a gap between the syntactically and semantically encoded meaning of a sentence and the pragmatic meaning that is inferred in an actual communicative situation. Several experimental studies have approached
Rodrigo Loredo +2 more
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Conversational Implicatures: Modelling Relevance Theory Probabilistically
CoRRRecent advances in Bayesian probability theory and its application to cognitive science in combination with the development of a new generation of computational tools and methods for probabilistic computation have led to a 'probabilistic turn' in pragmatics and semantics.
Unger, Christoph, Buschmeier, Hendrik
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Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 261-271, Summer 2026.
Anna Klieber
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IMPLICATURE IN JOHN GREEN’S THE FAULT OF OUR STARS
JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), 2015 Discourses on revealing meanings in utterances are widely discussed in some fields of linguistics, semantics, presupposition, and implicature. This study is an example of how implicature is employed in a novel, which is a depiction of real life ...
Dheril Sofia Nanda
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Grice’s Maxims of Conversation on Fast Talk with Boy Abunda
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research and InnovationThe purpose of this study aimed to determine and analyze the implicatures of the adherence and violations to Grice’s Maxims of Conversation on the talk show, Fast Talk with Boy Abunda.
Aris Joy Porquiado +1 more
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