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Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 2023 Kuhn’s radical meaning variance thesis implies that scientists, who work in different paradigms cannot understand each other. This, however, seems incredible.
Adam Grobler
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Omissions, causation, and responsibility - A reply to McLachlan and Coggon [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I discuss a recent exchange of articles between Hugh McLachlan and John Coggon on the relationship between omissions, causation and moral responsibility.
McGee, Andrew
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Presupposition and negation † [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 1988 Abstract Ever since Strawson proposed (1950, 1952, 1954) to regard the negation operator in natural language as presupposition-preserving, there has been unclarity, in most of the literature, about the logical consequences of such a proposal.
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A Pragmatic Study of Aggression in Some English Comic Strips
آداب الكوفة, 2021 Aggression can be detected in speakers' language for many purposes such as criticism, refusal, delivering unpleasant messages or even solidarity among people. To cover the disagreeable consequences of such aggressions, speakers usually utilize humour as
Ahmed Mubarak, Sundus Allawi, MA
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CLAUSAL SUBSTITUTION IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2020 The article focuses on the ways and mechanisms clausal substitution in English works, thoroughly analysing said cohesive relation along with some of its most typical instances.
Snejana Obeyd
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The L2 Acquisition of French Interrogatives: Pragmatic Inferences in Clefted wh-Questions
Languages, 2021 The present study aims to elaborate on the understanding of the second language (L2) acquisition of French interrogatives by focusing on clefted (subject) wh-questions, structures that are largely absent in prior L2 literature.
Emilie Destruel, Bryan Donaldson
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, 2014 A common presupposition in epistemology is that the processes contributing to the generation of knowledge do not extend beyond the knower's skin. This paper challenges this presupposition.
Kelp, Christoph
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PRESUPPOSITION IN THE JAKARTA POSTS POLITICAL ARTICLES: A PRAGMATICS APPROACH
Indonesian EFL Journal, 2015 This study is aimed to investigate presupposition in The Jakarta Post daily newspapers articles in political column. It covers two problems: types of presupposition and triggers of presupposition. Those problems were identified by applying presupposition
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly, Ayu Putri Kurnia
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Distinguishing Entailment and Presupposition Under Negation Test
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2016 Distinguishing entailment from presupposition is quite difficult because their semanticrelation seems to be similar. Both entailment and presupposition have an automaticrelationship based on the context.
Gatri Asti Putri Indarti
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Truthfully Misleading: Truth, Informativity, and Manipulation in Linguistic Communication
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Linguistic communication is geared toward the exchange of information, i.e., changing the addressee's world views. In other words, persuasion is the goal of speakers and the force of the speaker's commitment as indicated in the utterance is an important ...
Anne Reboul
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