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 …

Construction Grammar approaches conceive of constructions as the basic units of grammar,
commonly defining them as Saussurean signs, ie as conventional pairings of form and …

Utterances give rise to many potential inferences. They can be communicated explicitly or
implicitly, they may or may not be intended, and they may or may not even be inferred. In this …

Or constructions introduce a set of alternatives into the discourse. But alternativity does not
exhaust speakers' intended messages. Speakers use the profiled or alternatives as a …

This paper contributes a pragmatic perspective to the complex question of how to classify
microaggressions that are committed via linguistic means. Given that microaggressions are …

Can an emoji be a lie? Recent research has emphasized the importance of commitment in
theories of lying, proposing that a speaker will only have lied if they are committed to the …

There is no doubt that pragmatic theory and philosophy of language are mutually relevant
and intrinsically connected. The main question I address in this paper is how exactly they …

I address the question how to delimit the concept of a proposition that would suit the purpose
of theories of meaning in discourse–meaning that is conveyed by the speaker, recovered by …

Semantics and pragmatics-the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively-are
two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how …

The concept of inference is foundational to the study of pragmatics; however, the way it is
theoretically conceptualised and methodologically operationalised is far from uniform. This …