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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
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Intentionality and Meaning in Natural languages [PDF]
, 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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Blending versus conceptual interaction in the construction of illocutionary meaning: counterfactual pieces of advice [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2002 The cognitive operation of conceptual integration or blending as described by Fauconnier and Turner (1994,1996) includes the notion of emergent structure, that is to say, conceptual structure, which is part of the blend and which is independent and/or inconsistent with that of the input spaces.
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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
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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).
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Speech Acts: The Contemporary Theoretical Landscape [PDF]
, 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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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper contrasts verb-first (= V1-)conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses ...
Leuschner, Torsten, Van den Nest, Daan
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“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future‐Making
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In Zurich, Switzerland's largest and wealthiest city, future planning around densification has been intensely debated in recent years, spurring referendums and direct democratic votes, and permeating the public discourse through governmental communication, political propaganda, and heightened media coverage.
Sabrina Stallone
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, 1997 Communicative actions in the broad sense of communicationattempts  are special cases of instrumental actions, i.e. actions by means of which one tries to achieve some ends, their differentia specifica being that in the case of communicative actions the
Meggle, Georg
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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