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Proper names in the role of presupposition triggers

, 2020
When creating or perceiving utterances in the process of communication, everyone, regardless of linguistic or cultural background, primarily relies on the experience and knowledge of the world, correlating what is said with reality and producing mental operations to identify the semantic core of the text.
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New data on the 'triggering problem' for presuppositions

Semantics and Linguistic Theory
The paper addresses the question which entailments of complex expressions are more likely to become presupposed meaning (the ‘triggering problem’) by discussing new experimental evidence. Exploiting a word learning paradigm based on visual animations (Bade, Schlenker & Chemla to appear), the experiment discussed tests the predictions of ...
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Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
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Projection or admittance? Presupposition accommodation and the Karttunen calculus. [PDF]

Linguist Philos
Winter Y.
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Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing logophoric pronouns: a presuppositional account of logophoric dependencies. [PDF]

Nat Lang Semant
Bassi I, Driemel I, Bimpeh AA, Silleresi S, Ilọri JF, Nuworsu A, Nweya GO.   +6 more
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Biocultural synthesis of adolescence: a roadmap to advance the field Synthèse bioculturelle de l'adolescence : une feuille de route pour faire avancer la recherche

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Adolescence is an expansive, dynamic period within the life course, covering a broad age range (10‐24 years) and a cascade of biological and cultural changes. However, biocultural approaches to adolescence have been less well developed within existing research compared to child and adult counterparts.
Delaney Glass, Emily Emmott
wiley   +1 more source

Even in presupposition denials. [PDF]

Linguist Philos
Francis N.
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A puzzle related to superlative modification in definite relative clauses in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2022
Abu Helal AR.
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Presupposition Trigger in the Articles of Toastmasters Magazine [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2017), 2017
Anni Holila Pulungan, Busmin Gurning, Rizki Hardiyanti   +2 more
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