Titlebook: Inquiries in Philosophical Pragmatics; Theoretical Developm Fabrizio Macagno,Alessandro Capone Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and

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The Primacy of Semantics and How to Understand It,ther than pragmaticist. The vehicle of content is primarily semantic, and is run by its ‘semantic engine’ so to speak. But what about problematic examples? Some authors proposes an extreme pan-semanticist answer: their semantic content is complete, since it relies on the convention pointing to what

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,‘Few’, ‘A Few’, ‘Only’: Negative Quantifier Noun Phases and Negative Polarity Items – The Horn-Atlaantifier sentences. I also review the history of the L. Horn – J.D. Atlas Debate (1991–2018) on ‘Only Proper Noun’ sentences and its implications for quantifier noun phrases like “Few N”, and I assess the promise of L. Horn’s Pragmatic Theory of Negative Polarity Item Licensing.

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Categorization, Memory and Linguistic Uses: What Happens in the Case of Polysemy,ave a unique and univocal designation for every event, fact, class or cultural category, but historical-natural languages simply cannot have a one-to-one correspondence between signs and referents because of the principle of economy and its key role in languages, and also because human experiences a

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Interpretation of Copredicative Sentences: A Rich Underspecification Account of Polysemy,epresentation of polysemy. Therefore, different representation models try to give an answer about the puzzle of representation of polysemous words in general and of inherent polysemous words in particular. Inherent polysemous words are those that have several related senses that allow copredication,

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First Person Implicit Indirect Reports in Disguise, in some cases second person reports are implicit indirect reports involving a . attribution. Then I draw analogies with implicit indirect reports involving the third person. I establish some similarities at the level of the free enrichment through which the explicature is obtained and I propose tha

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Assessing Dialectical Relevance Using Argument Distance,ssessing dialectical relevance by using the notion of argument distance. An argument is defined as dialectically relevant if it is an appropriate move in a multiagent dialogue exchange. Three examples are studied where a criticism of relevance is made against an argument, and the problem posed is ho