Disclaimers are generally defined as devices employed to ward off and defeat doubts negative typifications which may result from intended conduct (Hewitt & Stokes 1975). In academic prose, writers also take advantage of disclaimers remove any probable infelicities that could occur a their research or language choices in an attempt promote the precision persuasive power text. order develop c...

The Federal Circuit’s recent decisions in STC.UNM v. Intel Corp.[1] and In re Dinsmore[2] illustrate dangers associated with filing a terminal disclaimer to overcome a nonstatutory double-patenting rejection. In each case, the appellant tried to address the requirement that the terminally disclaimed patent had to be commonly owned with a patent owned by another party in order to be enforceable....

Individuals who anticipate poor performance on some imminent task often offer disclaimers – verbal statements which serve to protect them from negative social evaluation by dissociating the poor performance from their identity. In the present study, 7to 14-year-olds (N = 226) responded to hypothetical vignettes where the protagonists either used or did not use a disclaimer when telling a peer a...

Viewing conversations from an epistemic perspective involves analysing how participants navigate their knowledge, handle uncertainty, and address lack of knowledge. This article focuses on the use disclaimers, i.e., linguistic expressions that speakers employ to indicate uncertainty or in a collection Italian gynaecological throughout pregnancy. Specifically, study examines occurrences, feature...