Consideration of the metalinguistic effects of utterances involving vague terms has led Barker [1] to treat vagueness using a modified Stalnakerian model of assertion. I present a sorites-like puzzle for factual beliefs in the standard Stalnakerian model [28] and show that it can be resolved by enriching the model to make use of probabilistic belief spaces. An analogous problem arises for metal...

Metalinguistic intuitions play a very large evidential role in both linguistics and philosophy. Linguists think that these intuitions are products of underlying linguistic competence. I call this view “the voice of competence” (“VoC”). Althoughmany philosophers seem to think that metalinguistic intuitions are a priori many may implicitly hold the more scientifically respectable VoC. According t...

This paper investigates how language awareness influences the writing abilities of bilingual heritage speakers. The study includes 175 9th and 10th graders with Italian, Greek, or Turkish as their L1 German an early L2. analysis is based on a corpus narrative argumentative texts in L2 test to explore semantic, pragmatic, textual knowledge that was administered both languages. We found students’...

The investigation and discussion of metalinguistic ability requires a firm theoretical foundation if it is to contribute to a proper account of its role in L1 and L2 performance. A framework for elaborating more rigorous accounts of this and other major issues of language acquisition and performance will be presented here as a prerequisite to discussing the role of metalinguistic knowledge. In ...

Scholars have wondered for a long time whether quantum mechanics (QM) subtends a quantum concept of truth, formalized by quantum logic (QL) and radically different from the classical (Tarskian) concept of truth. We show in this paper that QL can be obtained as a pragmatic structure LPQD of pragmatically decidable assertive formulas which formalizes the metalinguistic concept of empirical justif...

Abstract The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and conservatives as disagreements on how best use particular expressions. As the present paper argues, this has various merits. However, it was recently criticised in Cappelen’s seminal Fixing Language (2018). Cappelen raises an important objection against picture....