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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. There was, and is, moreover, great unclarity regarding the relation between the semantics and
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, 2021 International audienceWhy are some linguistic inferences treated as presuppositions? This is the 'Triggering Problem', which we attack from a new angle: we investigate highly iconic constructions in gestures (speech-replacing gestures or 'pro-speech ...
Schlenker, Philippe
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Crítica, 2019 I critically discuss some aspects of Mark Sainsbury’s Reference without Referents, from an otherwise sympathetic viewpoint. My objections focus on the adequacy of the truth-conditional framework that Sainsbury presupposes.
Manuel García-Carpintero
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 The paper shows that implicit strategies for questionable contents are frequent in persuasive texts, as compared to texts with other purposes. It proposes that the persuasive and manipulative effectiveness of introducing questionable contents implicitly ...
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
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Slurs as the Shortcut of Discrimination
Rivista di Estetica, 2017 The last decade saw a growing interest for hate speech and the ways in which language reflects and perpetuates discrimination, with two main focuses of interest: a linguistic-oriented question about how slurs encode evaluation on the one hand, and a ...
Bianca Cepollaro
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Adpositions and presuppositions [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2016 This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them ...
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Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures
Glossa, 2018 We ask whether iconic co-speech gestures are judged as more natural by naive participants when their content is entailed by a preceding context, or repeated in the same utterance, or when they contribute new information (i.e., are nontrivial).
Christina Zlogar, Kathryn Davidson
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To accommodate or to ignore?: The presuppositions of again and continue across contexts
Glossa, 2018 One central question in presupposition theory concerns the effect of using a presupposition trigger in a context where its presupposition is not supported.
Florian Schwarz +2 more
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Building Evaluation into Language
Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 In this paper I spell out the conditions for a uniform analysis of thick terms and slurs, presented in Cepollaro and Stojanovic (2016). Our claim is that thick terms and slurs convey evaluations via presupposition and represent a device through which ...
Bianca Cepollaro
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A Search in Metatheories of Humanities and Social Sciences; Necessities of Proceeding towards Islamic Metatheorizing [PDF]
Religion & Communication, 2013 There is no such thing as impartiality in the theories of social sciences and humanities. We can recognize their metatheories by studying various pretheoretical bases they are founded on.
Ebrahim Fayyaz, Mohsen Badreh
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