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Relevance Theory and/or Gricean pragmatics; Chomsky on language and mind; and related parts of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, formal semantics and logic.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

As likely as any other theory…





From Bizarro comics via Language Log.
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

“I have no idea why you’re talking”


Dilbert and his boss failing to communicate












A Dilbert strip from last week.
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