Exploring The Rich Diversity Of Human Languages
[The title of this post is inspired by the title of Austin’s very influential 1962 book How to do things with words?] In our earlier discussions of such topics as telling the truth and concealing the truth, we have so far...
read moreIn a recent series of posts on conversational implicatures (see here and here) we’ve discussed H. Paul Grice’s theory on how we recognize and interpret implicatures, including the four conversational maxims he has...
read more[Thanks to Dave Howard for bringing up some of the issues discussed in this post] To continue with the earlier theme of telling the truth, telling lies and concealing the truth, I’d like to address the issue of potentially...
read more[thanks to Olga Kagan, Martin W. Lewis and Vitaliy Rayz for helpful discussions of various issues covered in this post] In a series of earlier posts, I discussed the issue of “telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but...
read moreIn earlier postings, I discussed the use of metaphors in language and the role that metaphorical extension plays in semantic change. There is, however, a whole area of language where such metaphorical extension is crucial: the...
read moreA couple of articles in the latest edition of The Economist warn us about new technology currently researched that will be able to read what people are thinking (see here and here). One of the main implication of such technology that...
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