Communication: Saying what we mean

Emma Borg Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication

In this paper I want to explore the arguments for so-called ‘unarticulated constituents’ (UCs). Unarticulated constituents are supposed to be propositional elements, not presented in the surface form of a sentence, nor explicitly represented at the level of its logical form, yet which must be interpreted in order to grasp the (proper) meaning of that sentence or expression. Thus, for example, w...

we say what we mean and we mean what we say

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On Saying What You Mean without Meaning What You Say1

What We Are Talking about and What We Are Saying about It

In view of the relationships between theoretical, computational and corpus linguistics, their mutual contributions are discussed and illustrated on the issue of the aspect of language related to the information structure of the sentence, distinguishing ”what we are talking about” and ”what we are saying about it”.

What Doesn't Go Without Saying: Communication, Induction, and Exploration

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