Speaking Names and Empty Domains. Effi Briest and the ‘Awful Being’.

Quantificational logic and empty names

In a number of recent articles Timothy Williamson has built a strong case for the claim that everything necessarily exists. His argument rests on a combination of the derivability of this claim from quantificational logic, with standard modal principles and a robust understanding of the Kripke semantics for quantified modal logic. In this paper I defend a contingentist, non-Meinongian metaphysi...

Empty Names and Pragmatic Implicatures

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...

on the relationship between iranian learners personality type and communication strategies in speaking.

چکیده شخصیت به مجموعه عوامل روانی، عقلی، احساسی، و فیزیکی تشکیل دهنده یک فرد اطلاق میشود، خصوصا فرد ازدیدگاه دیگران ( مرجع). تدابیر یاد گیری سعی در اگاهی از اقدامات زبان اموزان موفق زبان دوم یا یک زبان بیگانه را دارد که توسط خود زبان اموزان گزارش میشود،یا حین یادگیری زبان دوم یا زبان بیگانه از انها قابل مشاهده است( روبین و وندن 1987). همچنین تدابیر ارتباطی به زبان اموزان کمک می کند تا بر مشکلا...

Direct Reference, Empty Names and Implicature