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Power of source as a factor in deontic inference

Thinking & Reasoning, 2007
Power has been studied in various guises in both the social cognition and the reasoning literatures. In this paper, three experiments are reported in which this factor was investigated in the domain of deontic thinking. Power of source of deontic statements was varied within several scenarios, and participants judged the degree to which they thought an
Kilpatrick, S.G., Manktelow, Ken I., Over, D.E.   +2 more
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Critique of Telic Power

Journal of Social Ontology
Åsa Burman has recently introduced the important notion of telic power and differentiated it from deontic power in an attempt to build a bridge between ideal and non-ideal social ontology.
Sandro Guli, Luca Moretti
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Social deontics: A nano‐level approach to human power play [PDF]

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2018
AbstractThe notion of “deontic rights”—the capacity of an individual to determine action—is described as a tool to analyze human power plays in the turn‐by‐turn unfolding of social interaction. Drawing on various bodies of literature, the paper portrays the organization of the adjacency‐pair sequence as the key locus of negotiation over deontic rights.
Melisa Stevanovic, Stevanovic, Melisa
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Deontic power and institutional contexts [PDF]

Journal of Argumentation in Context, 2019
Abstract In this article I study the constraints and opportunities available to decision-makers in an institutional context (a county council), by analyzing the deliberative process that led to the rejection of an application for exploratory fracking.
Fairclough, Isabela
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Deontic Obligations in Anti-Sexual Harassment Policies in Tertiary Institutions: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Approach [PDF]

Journal of Language and Literature
Sexual harassment in higher education is a pervasive issue that carries serious implications for both institutional reputation and the well-being of victims.
Bernard Ayine, Cornelius Fuumaale Suom-Kogle, Benjamin Amoakohene, Osei Yaw Akoto   +3 more
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Commanding and Defining. On Eugenio Bulygin’s Theory of Legal Power-Conferring Rules

Crítica, 2017
This paper aims to explore two objections raised against Bulygin’s second approach to the definition of the nature of legal power-conferring rules. According to the first objection, such an account is vague about what is defined by legal power-conferring
Gonzalo Villa Rosas
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Telic power and its applications

, 2023
I introduce a newly identified form of power: telic power. While deontic power is a key concept in social ontology, it is too narrow to capture a central dimension of the social world.
Burman, Åsa,
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ESP Power Issues from the Perspective of an Intentional Approach to Specialised Languages

ILCEA, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to study ESP power issues in the framework of the intentional approach (IA) to specialised languages (SLs). IA has recently emerged in France (Van der Yeught, 2016, 2018, 2019a, 2019b) as an attempt to theorise the study of ...
Michel Van der Yeught
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Generalizing Deontic Action Logic

, 2022
We introduce a multimodal framework of deontic action logic which encodes the interaction between two fundamental procedures in normative reasoning: conceptual classification and deontic classification.
Giordani Alessandro
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Human Social Reality and Language

Phenomenology and Mind, 2016
My question, in this work, will be: How do human beings create such complex phenomena as money, government, property, and marriage? Here, I will maintain four theses.
John R. Searle
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