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Does reflection reduce the epistemic side‐effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 88-118, February 2026.The epistemic side‐effect effect consists of an asymmetric pattern of knowledge attributions in harm and help cases, paralleling the Knobe effect for intentionality attributions. Error‐based accounts suggest the asymmetries arise from performance errors in harm cases. We challenge this claim with three new experimental studies designed to reduce errors.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz +3 more
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Implicatures and teaching: an exploration of teaching presuppositions and implicatures
Italiano a scuolaTeaching implicatures is a fundamental component in fostering a deeper and more conscious understanding in educational contexts. Drawing on scientific literature and supported by hands-on teaching experience at the university level, this research ...
Veronica Bagaglini
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2017 Dans les formes citées françaises à caractère humoristique, les mécanismes du comique lié au tabou se laissent préciser à l’aide des analyses sémantique et stylistique, mais la description complète est obtenue grâce à l’appareil de la pragmatique ...
Magdalena Lipińska
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The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification [PDF]
, 2008 The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g., Kadmon & Landman 1993, Krifka 1995, Lahiri 1997 ...
Bott, Lewis +2 more
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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This paper advances the following criticisms against the received view of implicatures: (1) implicatures are relations of pragmatic implication and not attempts to convey particular speaker meanings; (2) conversational implicatures are non-cancellable ...
Silva, Matheus
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Lexical Pragmatics and the nature of word meaning [PDF]
, 2013 Estudio de los procesos de ajuste léxico de extensión y especificación aplicados al significado de las palabras, examinando los usos que los hablantes hacen de las mismas que abarcan un continuo desde los más literales a los más metafóricos.Este artículo
Eizaga Rebollar, Bárbara
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Bilingualism and conversational understanding in young children [PDF]
, 2008 The purpose of the two experiments reported here was to investigate whether bilingualism confers an advantage on children’s conversational understanding.
Bialystok +37 more
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‘Sneaky’ Persuasion in Public Health Risk Communication
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 208-218, December 2025.ABSTRACT This paper identifies and critiques a tendency for public health risk communication to be ‘sneakily’ persuasive. First, I describe how trends in the social and health sciences have facilitated an approach to public health risk communication which focuses on achieving behaviour change directly, rather than informing people's decisions about ...
Rebecca C. H. Brown
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