We rely on the strength of linguistic and philosophical perspectives in constructing a framework that offers a unified explanation for presuppositions and existential commitment. We use a rich ontology and a set of methodological principles that embed the essence of Meinong’s philosophy and Grice’s conversational principles into a stratified logic, under an unrestricted interpretation of the qu...

this paper, reviews the methodology used in the researches of organizational culture and points out that the framework of competing values is among the models which can be used as a base for researching in organizational culture field. using this framework in organizational culture studies indicates a sort of moving toward taking distance from qualitative approach which is feature of most cultu...

We reflect on how the journey in search of memories their ancestors carried out “a single word” (2014) by Khady and Mariama Syla, directors film, paths Senegalese presence Salvador/BA symbolize searches, past present, that result identities crossed fight against individual collective erasure our ancestry. Considering socio-constructivism, cultural theories presuppositions Law 10.630/03, we sugg...

We present an analysis of implicative verbs, complementtaking verbs which induce entailment-like inferences, but which are also claimed to trigger presuppositions. What is presupposed, however, is much more variable than with e.g. factive verbs. Sketching a formal treatment in Logical Description Grammar we consider the role of pragmatic reasoning and accommodation in deriving these presupposit...