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Provocative Vocatives: Slurs as Expressives

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fifty years ago, Zwicky demonstrated the slur‐neutral counterpart vocative divergence thesis (SNCVD):Slurs occur freely as vocatives. Neutral counterparts do not. In this article, I craft a novel problem for theories of slurs. The Vocatives Problem is the challenge to explain the SNCVD. I argue that there are two strong solutions.
Robin Jeshion
wiley   +1 more source

MOTHER-TONGUE (L1) PHONOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE IN THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF SOUVENIR SELLERS IN LOMBOK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This study aimed to examine the mother-tongue (L1) phonological interference in the spoken English of Souvenir Sellers in Lombok. Language and human are inseparable and since the languages of the world used in communication, there is bound to be a ...
Suadiyatno, Taufik
core  

Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Professional discourse in multilingual settings: policies and practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
De Clerck, Bernard   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Legal Methodology and Complexity: A Comment on Allen

open access: yesRatio Juris, EarlyView.
Abstract This article is a response to Ronald J. Allen's “Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law.” I begin by analyzing three key concepts that Allen employs in his argument: reductionism, emergence, and complexity. On the basis of this analysis, I question Allen's criticism of the reductionist approach that, according to him, legal scholarship ...
Michele Ubertone
wiley   +1 more source

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