VOLUME 16 • 2017
THE UNDERLYING COGNITIVE MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETING
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of significant phases of cognitive processing necessitated to grasp a message, inspect it for its prominent characteristics, and then establish the suitable linguistic structure and attributes required to transfer the message fl..
INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION AND INNATE CONCEPTS: A CRITICAL REVIEW
ABSTRACT. It is widely considered in cognitive science that Quine’s Indeterminacy of Translation argument has been overcome by empirical evidence that indicates children have innate constraints on the way they learn concepts. This paper will review experimental evidence that purports to show that th..
UNAMUNO’S MIRROR-GAMES: ON THE SEEMING OMNIPOTENCE AND MEANINGFULNESS OF WRITING IN THE GRAMMATICAL VOID
ABSTRACT. Miguel de Unamuno wanted the readers of some of his novels and plays to seriously doubt whether they are fictitious characters, for such a doubt should lead them to fervently crave for immortality. In this article, I argue that, even though the doubt raised by Unamuno is unintelligible fro..
EXPLORING COMPLEXITY THROUGH LITERATURE: REFRAMING FOUCAULT’S RESEARCH PROJECT WITH HINDSIGHT
ABSTRACT. This article constitutes an extended review essay of Michael Foucault’s Language, Madness and Desire: On Literature, Philippe Artièries, Jean-François Bert, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, and Judith Revel (eds.), Robert Bononno (tr.), University of Minnesota Press, 2015, 158 pp. A shorter versi..
AN ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC NORMATIVITY AND COMMUNICATION AS A RESPONSE TO OBJECTIONS TO A BIOPSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION FOR LINGUISTICS
ABSTRACT. This paper addresses the common-sense objections to a biopsychological understanding of natural languages. Some traditional notions of shared public languages are problematic for various reasons, both logical and social. It is argued, however, that a modest pragmatic analysis of linguistic..
STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY OF POPULAR SCIENCE NARRATIVES OF DISCOVERY AS AN INDICATOR OF READER-AWARENESS: A LABOV-INSPIRED APPROACH
ABSTRACT. Labov’s (1972) model for the analysis of narrative macrostructure of stories relating personal experiences has been suggested as a possible universal measure of narrativity and has been applied to a variety of narratives. It has not, however, been used to investigate popular science. This ..
DO IGNORANT ASSESSORS CASES POSE A CHALLENGE TO RELATIVISM ABOUT EPISTEMIC MODALS?
ABSTRACT. Epistemic modality concerns what is possible given a body of knowledge or evidence. Cases involving epistemic modals, present an interesting semantic challenge: in order to give a semantic treatment of epistemic modals, we must explain how informational states figure in the semantic repres..