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Variability and multiplicity in the meanings of stereotypical gendered speech in Japanese
gender indexicality language ideology japanese
2018/3/22
Recent research on the use of gendered speech in Japanese has demonstrated extensive
within-gender diversity, suggesting that the relationship between linguistic
forms and gender is variable, not fi...
Provide a compositional semantic theory that associates each of the following word-strings witha correct truth-condition (or in the case of ambiguity, correct truth-conditions) in a way that alsohelps...
Concepts,Meanings and Truth:First Nature,Second Nature and Hard Work
Concepts Meanings Truth First Nature Second Nature Hard Work
2015/9/2
I argue that linguistic meanings are instructions to build monadic concepts that lie between lexicalizable concepts and truth-evaluable judgments. In acquiring words, humans use concepts of various ad...
A Mathematical Model of Historical Semantics and the Grouping of Word Meanings into Concepts
Historical Semantics Word Meanings
2015/8/31
A statistical analysis of polysemy in sixteen English and French dictionaries has revealed
that, in each dictionary, the number of senses per word has a near-exponential distribution.
A probabilisti...
Presumptive Meanings: The theory of generalized conversational implicature
conversational implicature Presumptive Meanings
2015/8/26
Levinson’s book presents a theory of generalized conversational implicature (GCI), and
makes the central claim that this theory necessitates a “new view of the architecture of
the theory of meaning”...
Most theories of comprehension assume that every word in an utterance is comprehended by selecting its intended sense from a short exhaustive list of potential senses in the mental lexicon. This assum...
Word meanings across languages support efficient communication
Word meanings languages communication
2015/6/24
Why do languages have the semantic categories they do? Each language partitions human experience into a system of semantic categories, labeled by words or morphemes, which are used to communicate abou...
Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative
Language acquisition Pragmatics Word learning
2015/6/24
Language comprehension is more than a process of decoding the
literal meaning of a speaker’s utterance. Instead, by making the
assumption that speakers choose their words to be informative
in conte...
THE LINGUISTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MEANINGS OF BASIC COLOR TERMS
LINGUISTIC SIGNIFICANCE COLOR TERMS
2015/6/24
There are semantic universals in the domain of color; i.e. there are constraints on the types of possible basic color lexicons. These constraints arise from the structure and function of the visual sy...
Conventional implicatures,a distinguished class of meanings
Conventional implicatures distinguished class
2015/6/15
The history of conventional implicatures is rocky, their current status uncertain. It seems wise to return to their source and start fresh, with an open-minded reading of the original definition (Gric...
The meanings of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis
interpretation-based category cross-linguistic analysis
2015/4/24
Focus is regularly treated as a cross-linguistically stable category that is merely manifested by different structural means in different languages, such that a common focus feature may be realised th...
The QWERTY Effect: How typing shapes the meanings of words
Motor action Meaning Orthography Typing QWERTY. Valence
2015/4/20
The QWERTY keyboard mediates communication for millions of language users. Here, we investigated whether differences in the way words are typed correspond to differences in their meanings. Some words ...
Meanings of the unmarked: How 'default' person reference does more than just refer
design these pract
2015/3/31
This chapter explores one way in which members of a culture work to achieve
the appearance of ordinariness, and in so doing render invisible their most
heartfelt concerns. The target locus of behavi...
Meat and Meanings: Adult-Onset Hunters’ Cultural Discourses of the Hunt
cultural discourse ethnography of communication
2014/10/17
This study is a description and interpretation of talk about hunting. The study is based on data gathered from in-depth interviews with twenty-four hunters in the United States who did not become hunt...
Experimental studies have drawn conflicting conclusions about
the mechanisms of word learning. On the one hand, cross situational learning research (e.g. Yu & Smith, 2007) suggests the
capabil...