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On Scales, Salience and Referential Language Use
2012Kennedy (2007) explains differences in the contextual variability of gradable adjectives in terms of salience of minimal or maximal degree values on the scales that these terms are associated with in formal semantics. In contrast, this paper suggests that the attested contextual variability is a consequence of a more general tendency to use gradable ...
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Conversational Implicature And The Referential Use of Descriptions
Philosophical Studies, 2005This paper enters the continuing fray over the semantic significance of Donnellan’s referential/attributive distinction. Some holdthat the distinction is at bottom a pragmatic one: i.e., that the difference between the referential use and the attributive use arises at the level of speaker’s meaning rather the level of sentence-or utterance-meaning ...
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Interaction Involvement and the use of Referential and Formal Anaphora in Conversation
Language and Speech, 1988This study examined whether there are different cognitive burdens associated with the use of referential and formal anaphora in conversation, and whether these differences are systematically exploited by speakers seeking to converse coherently. It was assumed that speakers encountering difficulty in managing the pragmatics of conversation should rely ...
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A Lesson from Referential Uses of Definite Descriptions
Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 2007In this paper it will be shown that a substantial conception of semantics, one that does not regard semantic phenomena as subsumed under pragmatic ones, is necessary to account for what cries out for an explanation regarding the old problem of the semantic relevance of the referential/attributive distinction, as applied to singular definite ...
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The Use of referential questions in the EFL classroom
2020ÖZET Bu çalışmada yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğreten öğretmenlerin derslerinde cevabı öğretmen tarafından bilinen ve bilinmeyen (display and referential) soru türlerini nasıl kullandıkları, ve bu soruların öğrencilerin verdiği cevapların uzunluğu ve sözdizimsel olarak karmaşıklığı üzerindeki etkisi incelenmektedir.
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Using circles games to investigate the referential use of negation
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2022Francesca Capuano +2 more
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Overview of Computer Measures of the Referential Process
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021Bernard Maskit
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THE REFERENTIAL AND THE ATTRIBUTIVE: A DISTINCTION IN USE?
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1985openaire +1 more source