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Most substantive (content-bearing) words are polysemous, but polysemy is cross-categorial; for instance, the lexical forms ‘stone’ and ‘front’ are associated with families of interrelated senses and these sens...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Words: Syntactic structures and pragmatic meanings
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Open AccessWords: Syntactic structures and pragmatic meanings
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Introduction to the 2nd Synthese Special Issue: trends in philosophy of language and mind
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Editorial: ‘Key Topics in Philosophy of Language and Mind’
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Explicit Communication and ‘Free’ Pragmatic Enrichment
In this chapter, I set out to develop some ideas about the way in which pragmatics contributes to explicit communication and, in the process, respond to a range of comments and criticisms on my earlier work in...
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Linguistic communication and the semantics/pragmatics distinction
Most people working on linguistic meaning or communication assume that semantics and pragmatics are distinct domains, yet there is still little consensus on how the distinction is to be drawn. The position def...
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Enrichment and Loosening: Complementary Processes in Deriving the Proposition Expressed?
One important consequence of the relevance-theoretic view of cognition and communication is the following: we can think many thoughts that our language cannot encode, and we can communicate many thoughts that ...