Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical
knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss …

Using the example of recent attempts to engineer the concept of conspiracy theory, I argue
that philosophers should be far more circumspect in their approach to conceptual …

Findings from two experiments (run in Hebrew) argue in favor of the superiority of default,
preferred interpretations over non-default less favored counterparts, outshining degree of (a) …

Signs and symbols relate to concepts and can be used to speak about objects, actions, and
their features. Theories of semantic grounding address the question how the latter two …

Penrose and Hameroff assert that brain computations, including quantum computations,
involving hydrophobic areas of microtubules whose electron clouds go into orchestrated …

What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its
assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound …

Dominant accounts of “speaker meaning” in post-Gricean contextualist pragmatics tend to
focus on single utterances, making the theoretical assumption that the object of pragmatic …

This study investigates the pragmatic status and psychological reality of four levels of
interpretation: linguistic meaning, explicature, strong implicature, and weak implicature. We …

My aim in this paper is to examine Mitchell S. Green's notion of self-expression and the role
it plays in his model of illocutionary communication. The paper is organized into three parts …

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 …