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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

Errant Implicature

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic clustering based risk aware congestion control technique for vehicular network. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Dhakad B   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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