Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal
meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which …

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 …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of
compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts …

The concept of modularity has loomed large in philosophy of psychology since the early
1980s, following the publication of Fodor's landmark book The Modularity of Mind (1983). In …

It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring
to their special faculties. Thus, we say that dogs can smell things in their environment …

While utterance interpretation is standardly understood as context-sensitive inference, there
are prima facie reasons to doubt it is fully unencapsulated. First, utterance interpretation is …

In this paper I propose that pragmatic principles and mechanisms are at play in the recovery
of 'de se'attitudes in English (and in Italian), in cases in which grammatical and semantic …

In this paper, I explore the relationship between Relevance Theory and Jaszczolt's Default
Semantics, framing this debate within the picture of massive modularity tempered by the …

This study was designed to highlight the potential effects of different types of Explicit
Syntactic Markers (ESMs) on the sentence comprehension of EFL learners of different age …