<i>Salamander</i>, by Thomas Wharton

Temporal Implicatures by Guillaume Thomas

This dissertation proposes a theory of temporal implicatures, and applies it to the study of tense in Mbya Guarani. It is composed of two parts. In the first one, I discuss the analyses of temporal implicatures developed by Musan (1995, 1997) and Magri (2009). Although I argue in favor of Magri's (2009) analysis, I reject two aspects of his proposal: that tense is universally or generically qua...

Participatory Genre, by Thomas Erickson

The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may be better viewed as instances of a participatory genre, rather than as community. A genre-oriented analysis is useful because it encourages a focus on the medium within which the discourse is embodied. As an example we analyze ...

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Abstract. Objective: The authors assessed associations between body weight perception and weight loss strategies. Participants: They randomly selected male and female college students (N = 38,204). Methods: The authors conducted a secondary data analysis of the rates of weight loss strategies and body weight perception among students who completed the National College Health Assessment survey. ...

Wharton-SMU Research Center The Political Spectrum

Response To the Dissent by Thomas Chalmers

Chalmers comments that “Hem&i accuses us of assuming that if the volunteers guessed correctly which group they were in that means that they knew, which is obviously not the case.” In the Methods section of Karlowski’s Journal of the American Medical Associarion (JAMA) paper [l] it is stated that “a questionnaire was submitted to each of the participants asking them to guess which substance they...