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Red Wall: The Definitive Description [PDF]
Political Insight, 2021 The ‘Red Wall’ has become a key term in Britain’s political lexicon. James Kanagasooriam, who coined the phrase, and Elizabeth Simon, trace the emergence of the Red Wall as a concept, and argue that while it has been widely misunderstood and misused, the Red Wall has significant implications for predicting future elections.
Kanagasooriam, James, Simon, Elizabeth
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Incomplete Descriptions and the Underdetermination Problem [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to discuss two phenomena related to the semantics of definite descriptions: that of incomplete uses of descriptions, and that of the underdetermination of referential uses of descriptions. The Russellian theorist has a way of
Moldovan, Andrei
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper presents two experiments on the processing of informative definite descriptions in plausible vs. implausible contexts. Experiment 1 is a self-paced reading task (with French native speakers, n = 69), with sentences containing a definite vs ...
Misha-Laura Müller, Magali A. Mari
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Toward a referential view of definite descriptions [PDF]
, 2015 I argue for a referential view of definite descriptions. According to the view that I advocate, definite descriptions are variables. At the syntactic level, they contribute a free variable that must be assigned a referent in order for the sentence to be ...
Woolwine, Cassandra Joan
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Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This paper focuses on the impact of social cognition on thes processing of linguistic information. More specifically, it brings some insights to Relevance theory's construal of MeaningNN, which seeks to account for non-propositional meanings.
Magali A. Mari, Misha-Laura Müller
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Experimental entanglement of temporal order [PDF]
Quantum, 2022 The study of causal relations has recently been applied to the quantum realm, leading to the discovery that not all physical processes have a definite causal structure.
Giulia Rubino +6 more
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Open Banking: Definition and Description [PDF]
Computer, 2021 Open banking is diffusing rapidly in some economies. This article provides a definition of and some requirements for open banking and looks at some of its key enablers and inhibitors.
Phil Laplante, Nir Kshetri
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Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear.
Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendrői
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Generating Bridging Definite Descriptions
, 2008 International audienceIn this paper, we focus on the role knowledge based reasoning plays in the generation of definite descriptions. Specifically, we propose an extension of Dale and Reiter's incremental algorithm which covers not only directly ...
Striegnitz, Kristina +3 more
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(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented.
Umbach, Carla
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