Wagemans, Jean H. M.
Published in
Research in Language
This paper provides a theoretical rationale for distinguishing four basic argument forms. On the basis of a survey of classical and contemporary definitions of argument, a set of assumptions is formulated regarding the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of arguments. It is demonstrated how these assumptions yield four different argument forms: (1) fi...
Pagin, Peter
Husband, E Matthew
Published in
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
As a human-specific trait, language offers a unique window on human cognition. Grammatical constraints on the ways we speak about events, for instance, have long been thought to reveal the representational formats that our minds impose on the ways that we think about events. In recent research, verbs that name events of death have stood out as key ...
Meibauer, Jörg
This review deals with the communicative act of lying from a linguistic point of view, linguistics comprising both grammar and pragmatics. Integrating findings from the philosophy of language and from psychology, I show that the potential for lying is rooted in the language system. The tasks of providing an adequate definition of lying and of disti...
Schang, Fabien
Published in
Studia Humana
The logic of conditional is developed hereby in a series of papers, contributing to a historical and critical analysis of what the logical constant is expected to mean.
Trafford, James
Published in
Studia Humana
There are several issues with the standard approach to the relationship between conditionals and assertions, particularly when the antecedent of a conditional is (or may be) false. One prominent alternative is to say that conditionals do not express propositions, but rather make conditional assertions that may generate categorical assertions of the...
Schang, Fabien
Published in
Studia Humana
An analogy is made between two rather different domains, namely: logic, and football (or soccer). Starting from a comparative table between the two activities, an alternative explanation of logic is given in terms of players, ball, goal, and the like. Our main thesis is that, just as the task of logic is preserving truth from premises to the conclu...
Nita, Raluca
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Meibauer, Jörg
Published in
Intercultural Pragmatics
This paper replies to Marta Dynel’s review article “Intention to deceive, bald-faced lies, and deceptive implicature: Insights into Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface” (Intercultural Pragmatics 12(3), 309–332), which discusses my book with the aforementioned title (Meibauer 2014a. Lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Berlin & Bosto...
Vernant, Denis
Frege is generally held to be the inventor of modern logic in its syntactic and semantic dimensions. But it is less emphasized its contribution to pragmatics and even to praxeology. It will be argued that, initially negatively, in order to reveal the specificity of the new logic, and then positively to characterize the process of knowledge, Frege w...
