Despite widespread use of LLMs as conversational agents, evaluations of performance fail
to capture a crucial aspect of communication: interpreting language in context …

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the
speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously …

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has drawn heavy attention and
investment in their use as conversational and embodied systems. Despite widespread use …

The importance of the notion of implicature in the study of irregular negatives was hinted at
in Chap. 1. First, one of the leading theories maintains that the irregular interpretations of …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

Polysemy, understood as instances of a single linguistic expression having multiple related
senses, is not a homogenous phenomenon. There are regular (apparently, rule‐based) …

Although some utterances communicate a determinate speaker's meaning which can be
duplicated in the minds of speaker and hearer, others communicate–either alongside or …

Fun fact: the word 'ambiguous', at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
ambiguous: it can mean uncertainty or dubiousness on the one hand and a sign bearing …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …