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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains
GlossaThe present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko +2 more
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A Linguistic Analysis of the Theme of Racism Represented in Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us '' [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-FayūmThis study explores Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us ''. It aims to reveal the function of the pragmatic features of the song.
Jihad Shaban Wahba
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 500-516, June 2026.Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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Implicatures in Judicial Opinions [PDF]
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2019 A frequently discussed question in recent jurisprudential debates concerns the extent to which conversational\ud implicatures can be conveyed reliably in legal language. Roughly, an implicature is a piece of information that a\ud speaker communicates indirectly, that is without making the conveyed information explicit.
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Presupposition and it’s relation to Entailment, Conversational Implicature and Iqtidā
قضايا لغويةThis study focuses on presupposition, a linguistic phenomenon that holds utmost importance in communication. In addition, it analyses three other linguistic phenomena that are closely related to presupposition:entailment, conversational implicature ...
IBRAHIM ABDULLAH SULAIMAN
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2019 The notion of implicature has been a matter of discussion since Grice put it forward. He proposed a schema to explain how implicatures are generated and inferred, but the key condition it contains has been surprisingly overlooked.
Miquel Company
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How to make people do things with words
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 454-470, June 2026.Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Language and CognitionPragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini +2 more
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Until at least 4 years of age, children, unlike adults, interpret some as compatible with all. The inability to draw the pragmatic inference leading to interpret some as not all, could be taken to indicate a delay in pragmatic abilities, despite evidence
Sarah F. V. Eiteljoerge +4 more
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