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Silencing Speech with Pornography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this paper is to offer a map of the dynamics through which pornography may silence women’s illocutions. Drawing on Searle’s speech act theory, I will take illocutionary forces as sets of conditions for success. The different types of silencing,
Caponetto, L.
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Intentionality and Meaning in Natural languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the logical tradition of analytical philosophy, to understand the meaning of an utterance is to understand its truth conditions. In the tradition of natural language analysis, meaning is related to the use of language.
Candida De Sousa Melo
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Toxic Misogyny and the Limits of Counterspeech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Gender equality, across all the ways that we humans are engendered, is an unrealized ideal of many contemporary Americans. It is not enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, unless one interprets “men” to include women, which the Framers did not.
Tirrell, Lynne
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An inferential articulation of metaphorical assertions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper argues for the view that metaphors are assertions by locating metaphor within our social discursive practices of asserting and inferring. The literal and the metaphorical differ not in the stating of facts nor in the representation of states ...
Kwesi, Richmond
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A’ingae (Cofán/Kofán) Operators

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2018
The aim of this paper is to show how the TAME system of A'ingae, a language isolate spoken in Colombia and Ecuador, can be captured within the theoretical framework of Functional Discourse Grammar.
Hengeveld Kees, Fischer Rafael
doaj   +1 more source

Specificity Of Communication In Archaic Rite

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2010
The article is devoted to some peculiarities of nonverbal affective interaction in the space of archaic rite that is communicative in its nature.
M A Voronkina
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Speech Acts: The Contemporary Theoretical Landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What makes it the case that an utterance constitutes an illocutionary act of a given kind? This is the central question of speech-act theory. Answers to it—i.e., theories of speech acts—have proliferated.
Fogal, Daniel   +2 more
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