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Errant Implicature

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
wiley   +1 more source

Pure Event Semantics

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offer pure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pure event semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this
Roger Schwarzschild
wiley   +1 more source

Posting environmental risk: Communicating with numerical and nonnumerical messaging across information modalities

open access: yesRisk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Risk communicators frequently engage members of the public through social media; therefore, it is important to understand how to effectively communicate risks about environmental and health issues. This experiment with U.S. adults (N = 737) explored how message features in risk‐focused social media posts—namely, message modality (text‐only ...
Megan L. P. Norman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

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