Hans-Christian Orsted introduced the term" thought experiment" to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. Thought experiments …

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within
semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the …

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape
hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of …

Slurs are among the most rhetorically powerful and insidious expressions in a language.
One key reason for this, I will argue, is that they present contents from a certain perspective …

I propose that an account of metaphor understanding which covers the full range of cases
has to allow for two routes or modes of processing. One is a process of rapid, local, on-line …

Traditional theories of sarcasm treat it as a case of a speaker's meaning the opposite of what
she says. Recently,'expressivists' have argued that sarcasm is not a type of speaker …

Most theorizing about linguistic communication assumes that conversation is a cooperative
enterprise—specifically, one in which parties contribute information to a joint project of …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional
people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic …

Many people report experiencing mental imagery (visual, auditory, and/or kinetic) when they
comprehend verbal metaphors. The question whether imagery is merely an incidental side …