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A Sample of Self-DefinersSemantics & Pragmatics

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Here is a third hand-curated selection from “Appendix A: A Self-Defining Linguistic Glossary”, a.k.a. “The only truly reliable cram sheet for your Linguistics 101 final”, from The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics.

  • Semantic bleaching is literally terrible.
  • Everyone believes someone will interpret this de dicto, but they don’t know who.
  • Everyone believes someone will interpret this de re, for that someone’s paranoia is universally known.
  • This is a deictic... and that, and these, and those, too.
  • that’s distal
  • Focus, I enjoy lecturing about.
  • The Gricean Maxim of Manner (“Clarity”) eschews obfuscation and espouses elucidation.
  • The Gricean Maxim of Relation (“Relevance”) likes purple giraffes in a bathtub with brightly colored tools.
  • The Gricean Maxim of Quality (“Truth”) does not exist.
  • The Gricean Maxim of Quantity (“Information”) did that thing the other day, with the guy from that place.
  • two homophones, too
  • The idiom chunk will have to be let out of the bag.
  • I’m looking for an indefinite non-specific. Do you have one?
  • I’m looking for an indefinite specific. Do you have it?
  • Yeesh, it’s a gosh-darned minced oath again!
  • Lady Mondegreen
  • I order you to use a performative.
  • this is proximal
  • all quantifiers
  • old-style retronym
  • two nice, amusing semantic shifts

More to come...



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