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Givenness and Maximize Presupposition
, 2019 Based on word order patterns in Czech, I argue that a cross-linguistically common partitioning of a sentence between given and new material is a result of an interplay of independently needed pragmatic notions: the Maximize Presupposition principle of ...
Kučerová, Ivona
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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THE ANALYSIS OF PRESUPPOSITION IN THE SHORT STORIES OF SILVESTER GORIDUS SUKUR
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2013 This paper is descriptive qualitative which describes the types of presuppositions and their meaning in the short stories by Silvester Goridus Sukur.
Erwin Oktoma, Styfanus Mardiyono
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Presupposition and entailment.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1976 Mitchell Ginsberg has recently argued that the traditional conception of entailment must be modified to allow for the fact that a statement having a presupposition can entail a statement not having the presupposition. Contending that the entailed statement may be false while the entailing statement is truthvalueless, Ginsberg suggests rejecting the ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke +3 more
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Power relations through the prism of critical discourse analysis and systemic functional grammar
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2023 The paper aims to evaluate the role of language in a specific socio-political context. It offers a critical approach and evaluation of the political statements of the European Union representatives regarding the process of the accession of Bosnia and ...
Avdagić Kemal, Džanić Mirza
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Innervation of the tubarial glands: A hypothesis‐driven anatomical review
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The tubarial glands have been described as a macroscopic bilateral glandular complex in the posterolateral nasopharynx near the torus tubarius and the pharyngeal opening of the Eustachian tube. Since their recognition on prostate‐specific membrane antigen‐based imaging, their anatomical classification has remained debated, with converging ...
Mugurel Constantin Rusu +2 more
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Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2020 I argue that “consent” language presupposes that the contemplated action is or would be at someone else’s behest. When one does something for another reason—for example, when one elects independently to do something, or when one accepts an invitation to ...
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
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The Presuppositions of Soft Triggers aren't Presuppositions
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2011 Presupposition triggers can be divided in two groups on the basis of whether the presuppositions they give rise to are easily defeasible or not. Abusch (2002) calls these two groups “soft” and “hard” triggers. In this paper I argue that the “presuppositions of soft triggers” is a label that actually identifies meaning components that sometimes arise as
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