Abstract This paper argues, first, that the information problem poses a foundational challenge to mainstream semantics. It proposes, second, address this by drawing on notions from Kit Fine’s essentialist framework. More specifically, it claims can be avoided strengthening standard truth theories, employing an operator expressing notion of relative constitutive semantic requirement . As result,...

The traditional tri-partition syntax/semantics/pragmatics is commonly used in most of the computer systems that aim at the simulation of the human understanding of Natural Language (NL). This conception does not reflect the flexible and creative manner that humans use in reality to interpret texts. Generally speaking, formal NL semantics is referential i.e. it assumes that it is possible to cre...

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Interlanguage pragmatics, as an inseparable part of communicative competence, has been emphasized as an ultimate objective in language learning. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students regarding interlanguage pragmatics and the impact of textbooks tasks on shaping their pragmatic competence. To accomplish this objective, 137 senior EFL student...