Alan Bailin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1454030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Bailin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailin |
| SIGNATURE | BAILIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the characteristics of verbal irony
During the last forty years there have been a number of attempts to understand verbal irony in relation to specific kinds of speech acts (negating, echoing, pretending, alluding). This article argues that these theories can account for certain subsets of ironic phenomena but not others precisely because of their focus on substantive kinds of speech acts rather than more general relational semiotic properties. The article proposes two conditions b…
The Critical Assessment of Research
Ambiguity and metaphor
We often consider semantic-pragmatic properties of language independently of each other. In actual texts, however, the properties frequently interact. For this reason a robust theory should allow us to account not only for semantic-pragmatic properties in isolation, but also for the ways in which they are combined. This is especially important for the understanding of literary texts because the exploitation of semantic-pragmatic properties is cha…
The linguistic assumptions underlying readability formulae
The assignment of thematic roles in Ojibwa
The linguistic assumptions underlying readability formulae
Ambiguity and metaphor
We often consider semantic-pragmatic properties of language independently of each other. In actual texts, however, the properties frequently interact. For this reason a robust theory should allow us to account not only for semantic-pragmatic properties in isolation, but also for the ways in which they are combined. This is especially important for the understanding of literary texts because the exploitation of semantic-pragmatic properties is cha…
The assignment of thematic roles in Ojibwa
The assignment of thematic roles in Ojibwa
The linguistic assumptions underlying readability formulae
Ambiguity and metaphor
We often consider semantic-pragmatic properties of language independently of each other. In actual texts, however, the properties frequently interact. For this reason a robust theory should allow us to account not only for semantic-pragmatic properties in isolation, but also for the ways in which they are combined. This is especially important for the understanding of literary texts because the exploitation of semantic-pragmatic properties is cha…
The Critical Assessment of Research
On the characteristics of verbal irony
During the last forty years there have been a number of attempts to understand verbal irony in relation to specific kinds of speech acts (negating, echoing, pretending, alluding). This article argues that these theories can account for certain subsets of ironic phenomena but not others precisely because of their focus on substantive kinds of speech acts rather than more general relational semiotic properties. The article proposes two conditions b…
Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Cartography (1 work)