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  • Vagueness and Language Use

    Edited by P. Égré, N. Klinedinst ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry

    Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies

    by Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies.The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion of merit within any ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Meaning and Analysis: New Essays on Grice

    by Richard Breheny ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The anthology 'Meaning and Analysis' addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice's philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cognition, Agency and Rationality

    Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science

    Edited by E. Sosa, K. Korta, X. Arrazola ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive science: philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The title - Cognition, Agency and Rationality - captures the main issues addressed by the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes

    Understanding the Information Taken for Granted

    by Filippo Domaneschi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted. Various psycholinguistic experiments are discussed to support the idea that involved in ordinary language comprehension are complex and demanding cognitive processes. The author demonstrates that these processes exist not only at the explicit ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Exercise of Power in Communication

    Devices, Reception and Reaction

    Edited by R. Schulze, H. Pishwa ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life. ... Read more

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  • The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quotation

    Edited by Paul Saka, Michael Johnson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that for a language to be learnable, speakers must be able to derive the truth ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports

    Socio-philosophical Considerations

    by Alessandro Capone ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This monograph on indirect reports offers insights on the semantics/pragmatics interface and a refinement of the notion of explicature. The volume is written in an engaging style and guides the reader through the theoretical problems and their ramifications. The thorniest problem in the study of indirect reports is their polyphonic nature, and how the listener distinguishes between the reporter’s ... Read more

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  • Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

    Edited by Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jérôme Jacquin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Pragmatics, Semantics and the Case of Scalar Implicatures

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years. Leading theorists in the field offer an up-to-date presentation of the subject in a way that will help readers to orient themselves in the vast literature on the topic. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Visual and Linguistic Representations of Places of Origin

    An Interdisciplinary Analysis

    by Giulia Mazzeo, Federico Montanari, Paola Donatiello, Maria Pia Pozzato, Margherita Murgiano, Emanuele Frixa, Alessandra Bonazzi, Giulia Nardelli, Enzo D'Armenio ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin. It examines the drawings of interviewees who were asked to draw their own place of origin on a white A3 sheet, using pencil or colour, according to their choice. If they were born in a place they did not remember because they moved in when they were very small, they could draw the ... Read more

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  • Semantic Under-determinacy and Communication

    by D. Belleri ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical discussion on the matter, this book investigates the phenomenon of semantic under-determinacy by seeking an answer to the questions of how it can be explained, and how communication is possible despite it. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD