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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
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Churchill’s reflection discourse
Topics in Linguistics, 2021 This study presents the results of a cognitive analysis of Winston Churchill’s historical works and memoirs at the textual, lingual and conceptual levels in order to interpret the implicatures of Churchill’s reflection discourse. The scope of the present
Bazylevych Nataliia, Nikonova Vira
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Obligatory implicatures and grammaticality
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2011 The paper explores some puzzling data on agreement with disjunctive noun phrases in Russian. I show that the data can be nicely explained by the theory of implicatures. The proposed analysis raises a more general question, namely whether scalar implicatures of a sentence can ever lead to ungrammaticality.
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An Introduction to Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Rational constructivism is a contemporary theory of cognitive development. It proposes that children generate, tweak, and radically revise theories, beliefs, and representations by integrating evidence with existing knowledge via probabilistic inferential learning mechanisms.
Rebekah A. Gelpi +3 more
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Early Implicatures by Children and the Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
, 2019 Inquiries into the acquisition of scalar implicatures (SIs) have focussed on the question why children calculate SIs less often than adults. To answer this question several hypotheses, such as the Processing Limitation Hypothesis, the Reference-Set ...
Röhrig, Stefanie
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British Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 365-381, November 2026.Abstract This article examines how change becomes possible in couple discourse within psychoanalytic couple therapy. It proposes “couple discourse” as a clinical and theoretical concept for listening to the ways partners signify, project and transform experience together.
Keren Cohen
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Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert +2 more
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Conversation principles and second language utterances
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2007 Conversation principles, such as those of Grice (1957, 1968, 1975), Austin (1962), Searle (1962, 1969) are formulated to enable interlocutors to interact meaningfully, in a linguistic project.
Kaburise, Phyllis
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Intentionalism, anti‐intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 358-375, September 2026.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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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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