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Negation 'presupposition' and metarepresentation: a response to Noel Burton-Roberts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Metalinguistic negation (MN) is interesting for at least the following two reasons: (a) it is one instance of the much broader, very widespread and various phenomenon of metarepresentational use in linguistic communication, whose semantic and pragmatic ...
Carston, R
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Truthfully Misleading: Truth, Informativity, and Manipulation in Linguistic Communication

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Context, content, and epistemic transparency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We motivate the idea that presupposition is a transparent attitude. We then explain why epistemic opacity is not a serious problem for Robert Stalnaker's theory of content and conversation.
Almotahari, Mahrad, Glick, E.
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The Promotion of the Veneto Territory in Times of Crisis: A Discourse Analysis of a Tourist Board Website during the Covid-19 Pandemic

open access: yesIperstoria, 2021
The study investigates the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on institutional tourism communication. In view of the necessary changes occurred in the tourism field since the start of the pandemic, a comparison will be made with the results of a previous ...
Daniela Cesiri
doaj   +1 more source

Demonstratives, definite descriptions and non-redundancy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In some sentences, demonstratives can be substituted with definite descriptions without any change in meaning. In light of this, many have maintained that demonstratives are just a type of definite description.
Blumberg, Kyle Hammet
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Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment.

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning the presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent.
Filippo eDomaneschi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A projeção de pressuposições: comparando teorias

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
The paper compares two solutions to the presupposition projection problem: the File Change Semantics, as proposed by Heim (1982, 1983), and the proposal raised by Geurts (1999) within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, elaborated by Kamp &
Roberta Pires de Oliveira
doaj   +1 more source

Pornography and accommodation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In ‘Scorekeeping in a Pornographic Language Game’, Rae Langton and Caroline West borrow ideas from David Lewis to attempt to explain how pornography might subordinate and silence women.
Heck, Richard Kimberly
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Dependent Types for Pragmatics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper proposes the use of dependent types for pragmatic phenomena such as pronoun binding and presupposition resolution as a type-theoretic alternative to formalisms such as Discourse Representation Theory and Dynamic Semantics.Comment: This version
A. Ranta   +14 more
core   +1 more source

In Materia Shaping of Randomness with a Standard Complementary Metal‐Oxide‐Semiconductor Transistor for Task‐Adaptive Entropy Generation

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study establishes a materials‐driven framework for entropy generation within standard CMOS technology. By electrically rebalancing gate‐oxide traps and Si‐channel defects in foundry‐fabricated FDSOI transistors, the work realizes in‐materia control of temporal correlation – achieving task adaptive entropy optimization for reinforcement learning ...
Been Kwak   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

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