Verbal communication leaves room for interpretative disputes. Speakers can argue about
what they mean by their words and negotiate their commitments in conversation. This article …

Abstract In the Minimalist Program, the place of linguistic communication in language
evolution and design is clear: It is assumed to be secondary to internalisation. I will defend …

This paper begins by presenting the theoretical background of, and the accompanying
psycholinguistic findings on, idiom processing. The paper then widens its lens by comparing …

This paper studies the way utterances project properties of the interactional context via the
choice of grammatical indexicals. Our analysis is an original combination of existing …

Ce livre présente les mécanismes de la communication verbale, en particulier ceux qui
permettent de manipuler autrui. Il explore la théorie de Grice, qui distinguee les contenus …

Рассматривается внедрение в текущий диалогический дискурс сегментов чужих и
своих сообщений, предопределяющее драматизм и оживленность коммуникации, т. е …

We give a short recap of how the notion of context has been developed in the philosophy of
language since its introduction by Frege. We introduce various aspects of the concept of …

Common ground is one of the key terms in communication research. The term is also widely
used in many other research fields, for example in politology, history and ethics. In …

This paper focuses on presupposition effects, in the light of Sperber and Wilson (2015). First,
we define semantic presuppositions as determinate contents, which can in turn be instances …