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Mathematics-writing synthesis: Kindergarten through Grade 12 mathematics-writing outcomes and instructional methods
In the last decade, researchers have focused more on how to provide instructional supports for mathematics writing (Powell et al., 2017). In this...
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The evidential future in Italian
This paper provides a systematic description and analysis of the non-predictive use of the Italian future. Several authors claim that, on this use,...
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On the optimality of vagueness: “around”, “between” and the Gricean maxims
Why is ordinary language vague? We argue that in contexts in which a cooperative speaker is not perfectly informed about the world, the use of vague...
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Challenges for independence-driven and context-repair responses to the proviso problem
This note presents challenge cases for prominent pragmatic responses to the proviso problem. I offer examples of uses of conditionals if
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Mathematics-writing profiles for students with mathematics difficulty
Increasingly, students must demonstrate knowledge in mathematics through mathematics writing, yet research lags in understanding how students engage...
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Slee** Beauty: Awakenings, Chance, Secrets, and Video
A new philosophical analysis is provided of the notorious Slee** Beauty Problem. It is argued that the correct solution is one-third, but not in...
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Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters
This paper investigates force shift, a phenomenon in which the canonical discourse conventions, or force, associated with a clause type can be...
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Conclusion
This chapter highlights the main findings provided in this study, including the newly defined categories under lawyer evaluation and the particular...
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Inferentialism: A Manifesto
In previous publications, we have proposed a new, inferentialist semantics for indicative conditionals. According to this semantics, the truth of a...
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Exploring reading profiles of rural school students
This study investigates the reading profiles of rural Grade 5 and 6 students ( N = 262), a sample with a high proportion of English language learners....
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Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice
Recent work on mood choice considers fine-grained semantic differences among desire predicates (notably, ‘want’ and ‘hope’) and their consequences...
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Contributions
The tenth chapter (contributions) summarizes the book’s contribution to knowledge in three main areas: metaphor theory and analysis (develo**...
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Reading a Novel, Speechless: Becoming Harriet, a Girl with Cerebral Palsy; through the Lens of Irritation and Nussbaum’s Capabilities
This article offers a reading of Kate Darbishire’s novel Speechless Stickhouse Publishing, London,
2018 ), following Harriet, a girl with cerebral... -
Semantic variation in exclusive quantifiers
This article develops a comparative semantic analysis of representative focus-alternative quantifiers in English and Japanese: (i) only in English,...
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Being Silent About the Truth: Narrative Ethics in Mats Wahl’s I ballong över Stilla havet
Lying and deceiving are prominent topics in ethical narration. This has to do with an often absolutist stance against lying that shapes a large part...
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On the difference between the ‘In’ and ‘According to’ operators
Semanticists and philosophers of fiction that formulate analyses of reports on the content of media—or ‘contensive statements’—of the form...
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Counterfactual mood in Czech, German, Norwegian, and Russian
The type of mood or tense marking that causes counterfactuality inferences—as figuring prominently, but far from exclusively, in counterfactual...
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Lawyer Evaluation in Text and Context
This chapter provides an overview of lawyer evaluation in three aspects: its conception, its realization as a linguistic activity, and its role as a...
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Family socialization and loneliness correlate with third graders’ reading comprehension
This study examined the relations among family socialization, loneliness, linguistic skills, and reading comprehension in 78 Mandarin-speaking...
