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I enumerate the main disagreements between Devitt and me, and then elucidate the most fundamental one. It concerns what it takes to refer to something.
Kent Bach
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A Functional Discourse Grammar account of proper names in Portuguese
A generally accepted view regarding proper names is that they have reference, but no lexical meaning (Lyons, 1977). This idea is the basis for the Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie, 2008) view of proper names as primitives of the ...
Monielly Serafim
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The use of referential expressions in structuring discourse [PDF]
Abstract Referential expressions that refer to entities that occur in a text differ in lexical specificity. It is claimed that if these anaphoric expressions are more specific than necessary for their identificational function, they not only relate the current information to the intended referent, but also contribute to the expression of the thematic ...
Vonk, W., Hustinx, L., Simons , W.
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ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher +8 more
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Descripciones definidas y negociación del significado : un punto de vista conversacional
In this paper, the reader will find a critical review of Donnellan's well-known distinction between the 'referential' and the 'attributive' uses of definite descriptions. In this respect, Kripke's (1979) and Searle's (1979) proposals are examined.
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
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Survival processing versus self-reference : a memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding [PDF]
Previous research has shown that rating words for their relevance to a survival scenario leads to better retention of the words than rating them for self-reference. Past studies have, however, relied exclusively on an autobiographical self-reference task
Anderson, Rachel J. +3 more
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The Referential Function Used in L’oreal Paris Advertisements
This study focused on analyzing language function, especially referential function. This function used in many kinds of communication, including in daily communication. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the referential function as well as its elements in L’Oreal Paris advertisements.
Ni Made Sutariani +2 more
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Using Referential Language Games for Task-oriented Ontology Alignment
Ontology Alignment (OA) is generally performed by requesting two parties to provide their complete knowledge to a third party that suggests potential schema alignments. This might however not always be possible or helpful, as for example, when two organisations want to query each other’s knowledge, and none of them is willing to share their schema due ...
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The Blue Book on Solipsism and the uses of ‘I’: A dialectical reading
This paper argues for a dialectical reading of Wittgenstein’s grammatical reminders concerning the uses of the first person pronoun in The Blue Book. Against a widespread, ‘non-referential’ view which takes those reminders as direct attempts at blocking ...
Jônadas Techio
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The Concept of Color Metaphor In Sundanese: A Semantic Cognitive Study
This paper is a qualitative descriptive study that aims to describe the concept of color in Sundanese. In this study, the authors used the free-to-speak listening method without involving the participants.
Muhammad Ivan Fauzi +2 more
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