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A Taxonomy of Mitigation Devices in English Language
مجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية, 2020 Language mitigation refers to strategies that people adopt to avoid face-threatening situations in conversation and thereby to linguistically repair the damage done to someone’s face by what one says or does.
Aso I. Ali, Salah M. Salih
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Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2018 The primary aim of this paper is to reveal uses of medieval Catalan constructions with subjunctive forms of the verb plaure ‘please’. Relying on a large corpus of historical texts from the 13th to 16th centuries, I argue that they are highly ...
Nagy C. Katalin
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Clauses as Semantic Predicates: Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2020 The standard view of clauses embedded under attitude verbs or modal predicates is that they act as terms standing for propositions, a view that faces a range of philosophical and linguistic difficulties.
Moltmann, Friederike
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Language & Communication, 2013 This article revisits the notion of indirect speech acts (ISA) in the light of a weak formulation of the classical Literal Force Hypothesis. It is argued that ISAs are actually instances of unspecified illocutions, which allows for the positing of a conventionalization cline in their realization.
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Figuring Out the Intended Meaning of Intonation in Some English Conversational Utterances
الأستاذ, 2018 The study aims at figuring out the intended meaning of intonation in some English conversational utterances together with identifying pitch variations that are determined by various syntactic constructions that impart the same illocutionary force of ...
Mahmood Atiya Farhan +1 more
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The Appreciation Game. A Monist Ontology of Works of Art
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract A pluralist ontology of art states that works of art can belong to distinct ontological categories whereas a monist ontology states that all works of art belong to one ontological category. A monist ontology would be preferable since it is more informative about the nature of art, and may pave the way for a definition of art.
Enrico Terrone
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What norms govern aesthetic conversations? In Hansen and Adams (2024), we argue for a norm we call, following Stanley Cavell, “the hope of agreement”, along with a requirement of “seriousness”, the “discipline of accounting for one's judgments”.
Nat Hansen, Zed Adams
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French adverbial clauses: rescue by ellipsis and the truncation vs. intervention debate [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be ...
Authier, Jean-Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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Discourse, Statement and Speech Act
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2016 Being a component of socio-cultural interaction discourse constitutes a sophisticated cohesion of language form, meaning and performance, i.e. communicative event or act.
Elena Alexandrovna Krasina
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