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Conversational Scorekeeping

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 979-993, October 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A Genre Approach to the Translation of Political Speeches Based on a Chinese-Italian-English Trilingual Parallel Corpus

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Institutional Design of European Union Cyber Incident and Crisis Management as a Complex Public Good

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 1037-1062, October 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Obligations and Permissions, and Conflicting Norms

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Doing your part: Joint obligation and individual‐level transmission

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 386-406, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The subjunctive alternation in Indian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 439-455, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Modality in Modern Hebrew: A Preliminary Attempt To Account for Epistemic and Deontic Interpretations

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980
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
doaj   +1 more source

Modal better: A corpus‐based investigation in world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 318-338, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Language, culture and society: Modality, face and societal logic

open access: yesGlobe, 2023
It is common to distinguish between individualistic cultures typically associated with Western countries and collectivistic cultures normally linked to Asian countries.
Per Durst-Andersen
doaj  

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