A Dialogic Soliloquy?

Soliloquy: a Cautionary Tale

The Soliloquy primitive, first proposed by the third author in 2007, is based on cyclic lattices. It has very good efficiency properties, both in terms of public key size and the speed of encryption and decryption. There are straightforward techniques for turning Soliloquy into a key exchange or other public-key protocols. Despite these properties, we abandoned research on Soliloquy after devel...

A Study of Soliloquy in Japanese

Signed soliloquy: visible private speech.

Talking to oneself can be silent (inner speech) or vocalized for others to hear (private speech, or soliloquy). We investigated these two types of self-communication in 28 deaf signers and 28 hearing adults. With a questionnaire specifically developed for this study, we established the visible analog of vocalized private speech in deaf signers. "Signed soliloquy" is employed regularly and value...

Embedded Soliloquy and Affective Stances in Japanese

This article discusses strategies to express intimacy with and exaltation of the addressee ― affective stances morphologically incompatible in the Japanese honorific system, wherein addressees are marked as either psychologically distant and exalted, honored, shown respect or intimate and not exalted. To resolve this dilemma, speakers commonly embed soliloquy in dialogic discourse, a strategy d...

A pragmatic dialogic interpretation of bi-intuitionism

We consider a " polarized " version of bi-intuitionistic logic [9, 7, 10, 11] as a logic of assertions and hypotheses and show that it supports a " rich proof theory " and an interesting categorical interpretation, unlike the standard approach of C. Rauszer's Heyting-Brouwer logic [48, 49], whose categorical models are all partial orders by Crolard's theorem [19]. We show that P. A.Mellì es not...