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Language and normativity

2022
This thesis studies both the meaning and logic of different expressions and sentence types. For example, names (“Spud”), predicates (“is a cat”), imperative sentences (“Shut the door!”), deontic modals (“Must”, “May”), meaning claims (“Triangle means three-sided shape”) and knowledge attributions (“Spud knows you’re home”).
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Normative Language Policy

2017
Language politics in the new global era presents policymakers with significant ethical challenges. How should the reality of English as a global language influence the normative considerations underpinning national language policies? What moral arguments justify the imposition of national languages in an era of increased immigration and ethnolinguistic
Leigh Oakes, Yael Peled
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Norms of language

2019
Abstract After decades dominated by a focus on the “individual speaker” and the “mind/brain” in both generative and cognitive linguistics, recent years have reinstated an older view on language as primarily social, i.e. as taking place between people more than within them.
Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg
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Norms and normativity in language and linguistics

2019
Abstract Underlying all the chapters of this volume are the concepts of norm and normativity. In this Introduction we set the stage for the individual chapters: first, by introducing certain basic concepts and relevant terminology; second, by briefly discussing the status of two types of norms in linguistics; third, by providing an overview of the role
Aleksi Mäkilähde   +2 more
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Normativity in language and linguistics

2019
This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail.
Aleksi Mäkilähde   +2 more
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