First, the wide applicability of the relevance-theoretic pragmatic account of how new (ad hoc)
senses of words and new (ad hoc) words arise spontaneously in communication …

Are there really such things as public languages? Are things like English and Urdu mere
myths? I urge that, despite an intriguing line of thought which may be extracted from …

Recent studies claim to show that language delayed deaf subjects typically display
longlingering deficits in Theory of Mind (ToM) development, despite suffering no known …

Recently theorists have developed competing accounts of the origins and nature of
protolanguage and the subsequent evolution of language. Debate over these accounts is …

As an object of philosophical study, language is typically considered as an abstract object
rather than a lived phenomenon that comes with rich and varied phenomenology. And yet …

How does being an immigrant shape the experience of being deaf in the United States and
vice versa? Drawing from approximately 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the …

Recent studies claim to show that language delayed deaf subjects typically display long-
lingering deficits in Theory of Mind (ToM) development, despite suffering no known deficits …

How does being an immigrant shape the experience of being deaf and vice versa? Based
on approximately two years of ethnographic research among the deaf immigrant community …

This dissertation is a defense of the hypothesis that syntax can be reconstructed using the
time-tested Comparative Method and structural analogues to phonological features, so …