Politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. To name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. Despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...

Social capital is embedded in social networks. For the purpose of these notes, I use the terms social capital and social networks interchangeably. At the most basic level it is useful to think of social capital in a supply-demand framework. Individual agents have some demand for social capital. More precisely, agents have demand for the services provided by social capital such as having access ...

In the face of disuniacation and incommensurability, how can the scientiac community maintain itself and (re-)establish commensurability? According to Peter Galison’s investigations of twentieth-century microphysics, commensurability is achieved through local coordination even in the absence of global meaning: The “strength and coherence” of science is due to diverse, yet coordinated action in ...

Perceivers’ shared theories about the social world have long featured prominently in social inference research. Here, we investigate how fundamental diVerences in such theories inXuence basic inferential processes. Past work has typically shown that integrating multiple interpretations of behavior during social inference requires cognitive resources. However, three studies that measured or mani...

 The category of the title is called $mathcal{W}$. This has all free objects $F(I)$ ($I$ a set). For an object class $mathcal{A}$, $Hmathcal{A}$ consists of all homomorphic images of $mathcal{A}$-objects. This note continues the study of the $H$-closed monoreflections $(mathcal{R}, r)$ (meaning $Hmathcal{R} = mathcal{R}$), about which we show ({em inter alia}): $A in mathcal{A}$ if and  only if...