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Ernie Lepore
Researcher at Rutgers University
Publications - 48
Citations - 872
Ernie Lepore is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pragmatics & Utterance. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 48 publications receiving 800 citations.
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Slurring Words 1
Luvell Anderson,Ernie Lepore +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the potential slurs carry to offend, and found that even co-extensive slurs vary in intensity of contempt, and argued that slurs are not truth-apt discursive discourses, i.e. statements that are neither true nor false but still represent the world to be a certain way.
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The Emptiness of the Lexicon: Reflections on James Pustejovsky's The Generative Lexicon
Jerry A. Fodor,Ernie Lepore +1 more
TL;DR: The authors consider Pustejovsky's account of the semantic lexicon and reject his argument that the complexity of lexical entries is required to account for lexical generativity, and defend lexical atomism.
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What did you call me? slurs as prohibited words
Luvell Anderson,Ernie Lepore +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that slurs are prohibited not on account of offensive content they manage to get across, but rather because of relevant edicts surrounding their prohibition, and compare Prohibitionism with certain alternatives and show why they believe it to be superior.
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Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Ernie Lepore,Matthew Stone +1 more
TL;DR: Imagination and Convention is a provocative and stimulating book that offers a plausible alternative to a Gricean theory of linguistic communication: one that relies heavily on linguistic conventions and imagination, rather than on pragmatic mechanisms.
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The emptiness of the lexicon: Critical reflections on J. Pustejovsky's the generative lexicon
Jerry A. Fodor,Ernie Lepore +1 more
TL;DR: Informational role semantics (IRS) as mentioned in this paper is a metaphorical interpretation of meaning in linguistics, philosophy and the cognitive sciences, which assumes that the meaning of a linguistic expression is constituted by at least some of its inferential relations.