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Deterministic Theories

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Determinism is (roughly) the thesis that the past determines the future. But efforts to define it precisely have exposed deep methodological disagreements. Standard possible‐worlds formulations of determinism presuppose an “agreement” relation between worlds, but this relation can be understood in multiple ways, none of which is particularly ...
Hans Halvorson, J. B. Manchak, James Owen Weatherall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Hate Speech Against K-Pop Idols and Their Fans on Instagram and Twitter from The Perspective of Pragmatics

Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics, 2021
Pragmatics is as a study of meaning conveyed by speakers or researchers and interpreted by listeners or readers. Social media itself is a means of communication that is easily accessed by anyone.
Muhammad Muslim Nasution, Julisah Izar, Istiqomah Husnun Afifah   +2 more
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Pain Intensities

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent philosophical work on pain distinguishes a variety of pain qualities and the mechanisms that give rise to them, but pain intensity remains a monolithic notion difficult to account for in reductive terms. The reason for this difficulty is that pain intensity is not a unitary phenomenal magnitude; pain is a complex experience featuring ...
Kim Soland
wiley   +1 more source

Illocutionary meaning in a knowledge base: The case of requests

, 2020
Este artículo se centra en peticiones convencionalizadas como Can you X? (Puedes…?), que aquí se entienden como construcciones o pares de forma y significado. En primer lugar ofrecemos una descripción concisa de dichas construcciones ilocutivas desde el punto de vista de la Gramática de Construcciones, para después presentar un tratamiento ...
Jiménez Briones, Rocío, Luzondo-Oyón, Alba   +1 more
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Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
wiley   +1 more source

A Constructionist Approach to Illocution: The Case of Orders

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2013
The present contribution studies the semantic base of orders at level 3 of the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2008; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza 2009).
Nuria del Campo Martínez, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Address Terms of Brotherhood in the Indian Online Gaming Community

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indian gamers are part of the Indian society as well as a globalised gaming community. To navigate this cultural dissonance, they can use address terms to reflect and create their double or divided identities. This article investigates forms and functions of kinship terms that are connected to the concept of brother ‘male sibling’, for example,
Linnea Garlepow
wiley   +1 more source

The illocutionary values of some literary interjections and their uses in telephone text messages [PDF]

Uirtus
Every utterance consists of accompanying an illocutionary act; speech act theorists will say that language is a form of intentional behavior. It is therefore useful for the speaker to reassure himself that the message he intends to convey is being ...
Amba Victorine Drabo
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The Appreciation Game: A Monist Ontology of Works of Art

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 531-544, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Very Idea of Seriousness

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 545-558, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source