Stavros Assimakopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 6108071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stavros Assimakopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stavros |
| FAMILY NAME | Assimakopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | ASSIMAKOPOULOS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Speech Act Theory
Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of perspective that emerges when the scope of the discipline is viewed through a narrow versus a broad lens. Following an overview of the initial exposition of…
Dismantling European Values
Since 2015, the mobilization of refugee and migrant populations towards the European Union has at times monopolised public debate, and the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has put fundamental European values, such as solidarity, to the test. In this article, the authors focus on Greece with the aim of examining the extent to which manifestations of discriminatory discourses crop up in the discussion of the ‘refugee crisis’ in two mainstream news portal…
Implicatures by Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, and Anne Reboul
Reviewed by: Implicatures by Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, and Anne Reboul Stavros Assimakopoulos Implicatures. By Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, and Anne Reboul. (Key topics in semantics and pragmatics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 251. ISBN 9781107125650. $116 (Hb). It may sound like an overstatement, but what Zufferey, Moeschler, and Reboul set out to do in Implicatures truly is an ominous task. There are ve…
Argumentative dynamics in representations of migrants and refugees
The present paper analyses discursive representations and standpoint-arguments pairs, realized in articles of four mainstream Italian newspapers that report on migrants’ and refugees’ mobilization at the perceived peak of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2017). We draw on the scholarly agenda of Critical Discourse Studies, employing tools from corpus linguistic perspectives, which allow us to generalize over the way in which the relevant mino…
Non-lexical pragmatics
Redefining logical constants as inference markers
There is currently no universally accepted general de nition of logical constanthood. With a view to addressing this issue, we follow a pragmatist ratio- nale, according to which, some notion can be identi ed as a logical constant by considering the way in which it is used in our everyday reasoning practices, and argue that a logical constant has to be seen as encoding some kind of dynamic meaning, which marks the presence of an inferential trans…
Introduction
Cognitive representation and the relevance of on-line constructions
In this paper, focusing on the relevance-theoretic view of cognition, I discuss the idea that what is communicated through an utterance is not merely an explicature upon which implicature(s) are recovered, but rather a propositional complex that contains both explicit and implicit information. More specifically, I propose that this information is constructed on the fly as the interpreter processes every lexical item in its turn while parsing the …
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Cognitive representation and the relevance of on-line constructions
In this paper, focusing on the relevance-theoretic view of cognition, I discuss the idea that what is communicated through an utterance is not merely an explicature upon which implicature(s) are recovered, but rather a propositional complex that contains both explicit and implicit information. More specifically, I propose that this information is constructed on the fly as the interpreter processes every lexical item in its turn while parsing the …
Redefining logical constants as inference markers
There is currently no universally accepted general de nition of logical constanthood. With a view to addressing this issue, we follow a pragmatist ratio- nale, according to which, some notion can be identi ed as a logical constant by considering the way in which it is used in our everyday reasoning practices, and argue that a logical constant has to be seen as encoding some kind of dynamic meaning, which marks the presence of an inferential trans…
Introduction
Argumentative dynamics in representations of migrants and refugees
The present paper analyses discursive representations and standpoint-arguments pairs, realized in articles of four mainstream Italian newspapers that report on migrants’ and refugees’ mobilization at the perceived peak of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2017). We draw on the scholarly agenda of Critical Discourse Studies, employing tools from corpus linguistic perspectives, which allow us to generalize over the way in which the relevant mino…
Non-lexical pragmatics
Implicatures by Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, and Anne Reboul
Reviewed by: Implicatures by Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, and Anne Reboul Stavros Assimakopoulos Implicatures. By Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler, and Anne Reboul. (Key topics in semantics and pragmatics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 251. ISBN 9781107125650. $116 (Hb). It may sound like an overstatement, but what Zufferey, Moeschler, and Reboul set out to do in Implicatures truly is an ominous task. There are ve…
Dismantling European Values
Since 2015, the mobilization of refugee and migrant populations towards the European Union has at times monopolised public debate, and the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has put fundamental European values, such as solidarity, to the test. In this article, the authors focus on Greece with the aim of examining the extent to which manifestations of discriminatory discourses crop up in the discussion of the ‘refugee crisis’ in two mainstream news portal…
Speech Act Theory
Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of perspective that emerges when the scope of the discipline is viewed through a narrow versus a broad lens. Following an overview of the initial exposition of…
Linguistics (6 works) · Pragmatics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)