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43Introduction: Special issue on pragmatics and cognitive scienceMind and Language 17 (1-2). 2002.
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38Metalinguistic negation is interesting for at least the following two reasons: it is one instance of the much broader, very widespread and various, phenomenon of metarepresentational use in linguistic communication, whose semantic and pragmatic properties are currently being extensively explored by both linguists and philosophers of language; it plays a central role in recent accounts of presupposition-denial cases, such as "The king of France is not bald; there is no king of France". It is this…Read more
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35Multiple ReviewMind and Language 2 (4): 333-349. 1987.Gavagai! or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy. By DAVID PREMACK.
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35Pragmatic enrichment: beyond Gricean rational reconstruction – a response to Mandy SimonsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (5): 517-538. 2017.It has been claimed that pragmatic effects that arise in embedded clauses pose a problem for the Gricean reasoning procedure. I maintain, however, that the real issue these phenomena raise for Grice, as he himself acknowledged, is their violation of his saying/implicating distinction. While these effects can be accounted for by Gricean reasoning, which Mandy Simons clearly demonstrates, there is no way round this latter problem other than a major revision of Grice’s notion of ‘saying’ and hence …Read more
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30Metaphor processing: Referring and predicatingCognition 238 (C): 105534. 2023.The general consensus emerging from decades of empirical investigation of metaphor processing is that, when appropriately contextualised, metaphorically used language is no more demanding of processing effort than literally used language. However, there is a small number of studies which contradict this position, notably Noveck, Bianco, and Castry (2001): they maintain that relevance-based pragmatic theory predicts increased cognitive costs incurred in deriving the extra effects that metaphors t…Read more
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29Editorial: ‘Key Topics in Philosophy of Language and Mind’Review of Philosophy and Psychology 8 (4): 717-720. 2017.
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21Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Word Meaning – What it is and What it is not’Dialectica 71 (3): 335-336. 2017.
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18Neil Smith has worked across the full range of the discipline of linguistics and explored its interfaces with other disciplines. In all this work he has maintained a commitment to a mentalist approach to the study of language and communication. The aim of this Special Issue is to honour his work and commitment with a collection of papers which brings together work by phonologists, syntacticians, psycholinguists, and pragmatists who share this interest in language as a central component of the hu…Read more
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17No unleashed expression without languageBehavioral and Brain Sciences 46. 2023.While the metarepresentational structure of ostensive communication may explain the unleashing of human expression, it neither explains the open-endedness of the thoughts expressed/communicated, nor how the multiply embedded nature of the metarepresentational structure invoked arose. These both require the recursivity of human language, a capacity which must be distinguished from external (public) languages and their use in communication.
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12Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.Bringing together work by leading scholars in relevance theory, this volume showcases cutting-edge research within the theory, and demonstrates its influence across a range of fields including linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, literary studies, developmental psychology and cognitive science. Organised into broad thematic strands that represent the latest research and debates, the volume shows the depth of analysis now possible after nearly forty years of intensive work in developi…Read more
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12The architecture of the mind: modularity and modularizationCognitive Science: An Introduction. forthcoming.
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5How many pragmatic systems are there?In María José Frápolli (ed.), Saying, Meaning and Referring: Essays on François Recanati's Philosophy of Language, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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1Words and Roots – Polysemy and Allosemy – Communication and LanguageReview of Philosophy and Psychology 1-33. forthcoming.Most substantive (content-bearing) words are polysemous, but polysemy is cross-categorial; for instance, the lexical forms ‘stone’ and ‘front’ are associated with families of interrelated senses and these senses are spread across their manifestations as three words, noun, verb and adjective. So, the ultimate unit underpinning polysemy is not a word but the categoryless root of the related words, which must, in some sense, track the interrelated families of senses. The main topic of this paper is…Read more
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1Relevance theory and the philosophy of languageIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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1Implicature and ExplicatureIn Hans-Jörg Schmid (ed.), Cognitive Pragmatics, Mouton De Gruyter. pp. 47-84. 2012.
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Implicature, Explicature, and Truth-Theoretic SemanticsIn Ruth M. Kempson (ed.), Mental representations: The interface between language and reality, Cambridge Univ. Press. 1988.
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H7, l40, l45In Jaroslav Peregrin (ed.), Meaning: the dynamic turn, Elsevier Science. pp. 271. 2003.
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Postscript (1995) to "Implicature, explicature, and truth-theoretic semantics"In Asa Kasher (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Concepts: Volume IV: Presupposition, Implicature and Indirect Speech Acts, Routledge. pp. 464-479. 1998.
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Relevance TheoryIn Gillian Russell & Delia Graff Fara (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, Routledge. pp. 163-176. 2012.
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Word Meaning, What is Said, and ExplicatureIn C. Penco & F. Domaneschi (eds.), What is Said and What is Not, Stanford: Csli Publications. 2013.
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Relevance TheoryIn Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Linguistic meaning, communicated meaning and cognitive pragmaticsIn Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language, Routledge. 2010.
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