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  • Conversational implicature 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Conversational implicatures (i) are implied by the speaker in making an utterance; (ii) are part of the content of the utterance, but (iii) do not contribute to direct (or explicit) utterance content; and (iv) are not ...
  • Encapsulation, inference and utterance interpretation 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    While utterance interpretation is standardly understood as context-sensitive inference, there are prima facie reasons to doubt it is fully unencapsulated. First, utterance interpretation is normally fast and automatic, ...
  • Legal speech and the elements of adjudication 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Shaer, Benjamin (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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  • Lexical modulation without concepts: Introducing the derivation proposal 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Textor, Mark (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    We argue against the dominant view in the literature that concepts (understood as the standing meanings of general terms) are modulated in lexical modulation. We also argue against the alternative view that ‘grab bags’ of ...
  • Literal and metaphorical meaning: in search of a lost distinction 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Textor, Mark (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The distinction between literal and figurative use is well-known and embedded in ‘folk linguistics’. According to folk linguistics, figurative uses deviate from literal ones. But recent work on lexical modulation and ...
  • The many errors of Vyvyan Evans' the Language Myth 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn; Rey, Georges (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Vyvyan Evans’ The Language Myth argues that Chomsky’s program of Universal Grammar (UG) is “completely wrong,” and it has attracted much recent discussion, some of it laudatory. We set out what we take to be its many serious ...
  • Metarepresentation 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Humans and other thinking beings can represent the world. My cat knows which cupboard her food is in: she has a mental representation of that state of affairs. Given that I believe that she knows where her food is, I have ...
  • Relevance theory 
    Allott, Nicholas Elwyn (Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)