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ABSTRACT Recent philosophy of language has seen a growing interest in what is often called the dynamics of conversation or conversational scorekeeping, that is, the ways in which speech and context mutually interact in the course of a conversation.
Lars Dänzer +2 more
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Abstract Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective resources. External shocks may present another challenge for collective resource management.
Damion Jonathan Bunders, Tine De Moor
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Using a trilingual parallel corpus, this article investigates the translation of Chinese political speeches in Italian and English, with the aim to explore cross-linguistic variations regarding translation shifts of key functional elements in the genre ...
Yu Danni
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ABSTRACT Effective cyber incident response and crisis management increasingly relies on the coordination of relevant actors at supranational levels. A polycentric governance structure is one of the institutional arrangements that can promote active participation of involved actors, an aspect decisive for the rapid and effective response to cyber ...
Mazaher Kianpour, Christopher Frantz
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Obligations and Permissions, and Conflicting Norms
ABSTRACT This article engages with the problem faced by deontic logic in dealing with conflicting norms, taking the issue back to the representation of the logical relations between deontic operators in a square of opposition. Reaction to empirical evidence of conflicting obligations has produced a rejection of the relations depicted in the sides of a ...
Andrew Halpin
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Doing your part: Joint obligation and individual‐level transmission
Abstract This paper addresses how joint obligations bear on what individual group members should do. I argue that joint obligations do not transmit to the individual level. On the view I defend, “What should we do?” and “What should I do?” are separate questions to be answered independently. I distinguish two versions of the view that joint obligations
Rowan Mellor
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The subjunctive alternation in Indian English
Abstract The study at hand is an exploration of the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent modal construction with the verb should in Indian English. The study complements the growing body of research on the morphosyntax of the variety and it enhances our understanding of the relatively under‐researched alternation.
Karola Schmidt
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Several aspects of the modality system in Modern Hebrew are examined. In general, Hebrew modal expressions are found to be unambiguous as to epistemic and deontic interpretations.
Dromi, Esther
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Modal better: A corpus‐based investigation in world Englishes
Abstract While previous studies have investigated the productivity of the better construction (in the forms had better, ’d better and better) in British and US English (USE), to present knowledge, no large‐scale comparisons on the use of this construction in other English dialects have been carried out.
Carmelo Alessandro Basile
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Language, culture and society: Modality, face and societal logic
It is common to distinguish between individualistic cultures typically associated with Western countries and collectivistic cultures normally linked to Asian countries.
Per Durst-Andersen
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