In this article, we explore the notion of propositionality to advance southern urban infrastructure debates towards more anticipatory forms scholarship. By propositionality, mean a research sensibility that engages, first and foremost, with propositions for futures on their own terms. While scholarship infrastructures in cities has contributed very fruitful conceptual methodological innovations...

The main goal of this paper is to argue that the way explicitly communicated content approached in leading pragmatic theories flawed, since it posited explicature generation involves enrichment decoded logical form utterance full propositionality. This kind enhancement postulated underlie appears be theoretically inadequate and not correspond psychological reality interpretation. Drawing on ear...

Frege and Husserl are traditionally regarded as the precursors of linguistic turn; however, importance their ideas for this event still is not fully comprehended. This article contributes to such comprehension: principles turn in its analytical interpretation provided by Rorty applied an indicator revealing commonality difference Frege’s Husserl’s positions regarding key issues concepts. The co...

I have elsewhere argued (Ariel, 2002) against the assumption that we can identify one literal meaning per sentence. Instead, I have suggested that there are (at least) three types of minimal meanings, each differently motivated. One implicit motivation behind the classical definition of literal meaning (Grice’s ‘what is said’) is a wish to capture the core content of sentences. I here examine d...

The present contribution deals with the epistemic readings of the Italian modal verbs dovere ('must') and potere ('may'/'can'). The two verbs show striking differences — both quantitative and qualitative — with respect to the possibility of epistemic interpretation, differences which have gone so far completely unnoticed in the — rather scarce — semantic literature on modal verbs in Italian. Ev...

Linguistic encoding is seen as playing a necessary but not solely sufficient role in speaker meaning by philosophers of Ordinary Language, such as Grice and Strawson. Despite wellrehearsed problems with some of Grice's and Strawson's specific theories, this general model has much to recommend it to present day linguistics. Recent accounts have tended either overfly to deny the existence of a co...

Four different principles of visual manipulation constitute a minimal list of what a visually "literate" viewer should know about, but certain problems exist which are inherent in measuring viewers' awareness of each of them. The four principles are: (1) paraproxemics, or camera work which derives its effectiveness from an analogy to the real-world domain of spacial communication; (2) false con...