Reason to Dissent

Handlungen in Form von Sätzen

How can the phenomenon of reference to particular individuals be explained? This book examines the ongoing debate about the semantic relevance of Keith Donnellan's distinction between referential and attributive uses of descriptions and about the semantic foundation of direct reference. A new solution to this debate is...

Argumentative Resistance

Reasons-based models of argumentation leave one stage under-theorized: the pragmatic transition by which an available argumentative utterance becomes an operative reason for a particular addressee. The prima facie/pro tanto distinction registers that this transition is not automatic, yet places it outside logical theor...

Construcción sintáctica de la información lingüística

Sentence semantics (here significación) is the information expressed syntactically in the form of a “construction”, consisting of the interdependence of at least two semantic features – primarily simple meanings – or formal markers (such as categories, agreement, prepositions, transpositores, word order, parentheticals...

The Question of Referentiality

Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases. Then, I will show how t...

THE DISCOURSE MARKERS YOU SEE, YOU KNOW AND ACTUALLY RECONSIDERED: A COGNITIVE-INFERENTIAL ACCOUNT

Couched within the relevance-theoretic, cognitive-inferential, framework, this paper aims at providing a comparative analysis of the cognitive (i.e. linguistic semantic and pragmatic) configurations and roles of the linguistic expressions you see, you know and actually, which have come to be used as discourse markers....

The semantics of profane quasi-verbs: Social relations in a dynamic framework *