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Karagjosova, Elena. The meaning and function of German modal particles. Saarbrucken: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, DKFI, 2004.

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Moral dimensions: Permissibility, meaning, blame. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Wildgen, Wolfgang. Process, image, and meaning: A realistic model of the meanings of sentences and narrative texts. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1994.

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Shultz, George Pratt. The meaning of Vietnam. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985.

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Shultz, George Pratt. The meaning of Vietnam. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985.

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Shultz, George Pratt. The meaning of Vietnam. Washington, D.C: U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division, 1985.

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Wuthnow, Robert. Meaning and moral order: Explorations in cultural analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

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Wuthnow, Robert. Meaning and moral order: Explorations in cultural analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

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Well-being: Its meaning, measurement, and moral importance. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.

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Well-being: Its meaning, measurement, and moral importance. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press, 1986.

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Empirical realism: Meaning and the generative foundation of morality. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.

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Clark, David K. Empirical realism: Meaning and the generative foundation of morality. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004.

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Executing justice: The moral meaning of the death penalty. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1998.

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Right actions and good persons: Controversies between eudaimonistic and deontic moral theories. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 1999.

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The meaning of sex: Christian ethics and the moral life. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008.

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Mullady, Brian Thomas. The meaning of the term "moral" in St. Thomas Aquinas. Città del Vaticano: Pontificia accademia di S. Tommaso e di religione cattolica, 1986.

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Edmund Burke for our time: Moral imagination, meaning, and politics. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.

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Meaning at the movies: Becoming a discerning viewer. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway, 2010.

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Holy war, just war: Exploring the moral meaning of religious violence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.

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Veale, T. Localist principles of meaning in a computational model of metaphor interpretation. Dublin: Trinity College, Dublin, 1992.

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Real leadership: How spiritual values give leadership meaning. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2011.

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Stahl, Gary. Human transactions: The emergence of meaning in time. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

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Beyond success: Redefining the meaning of prosperity. New York: American Management Association, 2009.

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S, Chisholm James, ed. Cultural persistence: Continuity in meaning and moral responsibility among the Bearlake Athapaskans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.

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Vatz, Richard E. The only authentic book of persuasion: The salience-agenda/meaning-spin model. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Pub. Co., 2012.

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Laurentin, René. The meaning of consecration today: A Marian model for a secularized age. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992.

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1944-, Pert͡s︡ov N. V., and Kittredge Richard 1941-, eds. Surface syntax of English: A formal model within the meaning-text framework. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.

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The invention of altruism: Making moral meanings in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The light of many suns: The meaning of the bomb. London: Methuen London, 1985.

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Communication and Meaning: An Essay in Applied Modal Logic. Springer, 2011.

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Jones, A. J. Communication and Meaning: An Essay in Applied Modal Logic. Springer, 2011.

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Carnap, Rudolf. Meaning And Necessity - A Study In Semantics And Modal logic. Clarke Press, 2007.

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Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Midway Reprint). University Of Chicago Press, 1988.

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von Fintel, Kai, and Sabine Iatridou. A modest proposal for the meaning of imperatives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0013.

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We discuss two challenges for any semantics for imperatives that has them denote (strong) modal propositions: the use of imperatives to signal acquiescence (A: ‘I’d like to open the window.’ B: ‘Go ahead, open it!’) and their use in conditional conjunctions (‘Ignore the slightest detail and the experiment is flawed’). We examine how the meaning of imperatives arises compositionally, and the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics. We demonstrate remarkable cross-linguistic uniformity in these uses of the imperative. In the course of the investigation, we also explore several puzzles in the analysis of conditional conjunction. We conclude with a recommendation in favor of analyses that give imperatives a non-modal semantics paired with a modulated pragmatics.

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Machery, Edouard. Modal Ignorance and the Limits of Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807520.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 examines the implications of Unreliability, Dogmatism, and Parochialism for modally immodest philosophizing (that is, philosophizing that requires knowledge of metaphysical necessities): Modally immodest issues should be dismissed and philosophy reoriented. Alternatives to the method of cases are critically examined: We cannot gain the required modal knowledge by relying on intuition, by analyzing the meaning of philosophically significant words, and by appealing to alleged theoretical virtues like simplicity, generality, and elegance to choose between philosophical views. Alternative conceptions of philosophy are too deflationary to be satisfying, particularly because there is much philosophizing left once philosophy is reoriented.

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Narrog, Heiko. The Expression of Non-Epistemic Modal Categories. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.5.

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This chapter gives an overview of the cross-linguistic expression of non-epistemic modality. Following the issue of morphological expression, including covert (implicit) expression, deviations from one-meaning–one-form, and biases in the expression of non-epistemic possibility and necessity are presented. Then morphosyntactic aspects of the expression of non-epistemic modality are discussed, especially non-canonical case marking associated with the use of non-epistemic modal expressions, and the question of order between modal expressions and expressions of other grammatical categories. The chapter ends with a brief subsection on modal concord and on the use of non-epistemic modal expressions in discourse.

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Lassiter, Daniel. Graded Modality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701347.001.0001.

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This book explores graded expressions of modality, a rich and underexplored source of insight into modal semantics. Studies on modal language to date have largely focussed on a small and non-representative subset of expressions, namely modal auxiliaries such as must, might, and ought. Here, Daniel Lassiter argues that we should expand the conversation to include gradable modals such as more likely than, quite possible, and very good. He provides an introduction to qualitative and degree semantics for graded meaning, using the Representational Theory of Measurement to expose the complementarity between these apparently opposed perspectives on gradation. The volume explores and expands the typology of scales among English adjectives and uses the result to shed light on the meanings of a variety of epistemic and deontic modals. It also demonstrates that modality is deeply intertwined with probability and expected value, connecting modal semantics with the cognitive science of uncertainty and choice.

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Ziegeler, Debra. The Diachrony of Modality and Mood. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.18.

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This chapter surveys recent work on the diachrony of modality, mood, and subjectivity. It first considers the research over the past thirty years into the development of modal forms and meanings—which is largely dominated by the study of English, and more broadly the Germanic languages, in the context of grammaticalization theory. It focuses on the nature of the source constructions for modal forms, on the emergence of epistemic functions from deontic or root modality, and on the role of syntactic development for the emergence of modal meanings. The chapter then discusses work on the diachronic development of mood, focusing on indicative/subjunctive inflection and (ir)realis coding in languages with little written history. It finally looks into diachronic studies and the role of subjectivity and subjectification in meaning changes in the class of modal verbs in languages.

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Nuyts, Jan. Analyses of the Modal Meanings. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.1.

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This article deals with the semantic analysis of the notion of modality, surveying the most important traditional views in linguistics. After pointing out the problems encountered in the literature in trying to define the category, it first discusses the in the literature most common basic types of modality, namely, dynamic modality, deontic modality, and epistemic modality, as well as the less common basic category of boulomaic modality. It then goes on to survey a variety of alternative views on how the semantic domain of modality may be organized. The article also considers the types of criteria that have been proposed to motivate the “cover category” of modality. Finally, it outlines a few features and properties frequently referenced in the literature on modality as characteristic of (some of) the modal categories, including subjectivity vs objectivity or intersubjectivity, performativity vs descriptivity, informational status, and the semantic scope of qualificational dimensions.

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Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame. Belknap Press, 2010.

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BORDWELL, David. Making Meaning. Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Robinson, Simon J. Agape, Moral Meaning and Pastoral Counselling. Aureus Publishing, 2001.

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Sawada, Osamu. Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198714224.001.0001.

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This book investigates pragmatic aspects of scalar modifiers. Through a detailed analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of comparatives with indeterminate pronouns, positive polarity minimizers, intensifiers, and expectation-reversal adverbs in Japanese and other languages, the book shows that scalarity is utilized not just for measuring a thing/event in the semantic level, but also for expressing various kinds of pragmatic information, including politeness, priority of utterance, the speaker’s attitude, and unexpectedness, at the level of conventional implicature (CI). The similarities and differences between at-issue and CI scalar meanings are analyzed using a multidimensional composition system (Potts 2005; McCready 2010). Two types of pragmatic scalar modifiers are proposed: a higher-level pragmatic scalar modifier, which utilizes an implicit pragmatic scale, and a lower-level pragmatic scalar modifier, which recycles the scale of an at-issue gradable predicate. The book also investigates the interpretations of pragmatic scalar modifiers that are embedded in the complement of an attitude predicate, and claims that there is a semantic shift from a CI to a secondary at-issue entailment in the case of non-speaker-oriented readings. It will also show that there is a phenomenon of “projection of not-at-issue meaning via modal support” in lower-level pragmatic scalar modifiers. Finally, the historical development of pragmatic scalar modifiers is also discussed. This book claims that although semantic scalar meanings and pragmatic (CI) scalar meanings are compositionally different, there is a relationship between the two, and it is important to look at both kinds of meaning in a uniform/flexible fashion.

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Putnam, Hilary. Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals). Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Putnam, Hilary. Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals). Taylor & Francis Group, 2010.

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Stroud, Barry. Ways of Meaning and Knowing Moral Realities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0018.

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This chapter examines some of the important and distinctive features of Mark Platts’ views on morality and on the kind of knowledge and understanding human beings have of it. In his Ways of Meaning, Platts sought ‘to present and discuss…the most important recent contributions to the philosophy of language’. The most important recent contributions to that subject through the 1970s were Donald Davidson’s elaborations of the idea of a theory of meaning for a particular language. This chapter considers Platts’ defence of the theory that he calls a form of ‘realism’, It considers specifically his ‘realist’ or ‘objectivist’ account of evaluative thought that stresses its direct connection with the non-‘epistemic’ conception of meaning and understanding from which it is derived.

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Putnam, Hilary. Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203850367.

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Cordner, C. Ethical Encounter: The Depth of Moral Meaning. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Brugman, Daniel. Meaning, measurement, and correlates of moral development. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315677088.

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Modality in Spanish and Combinations of Modal Meanings. Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2019.

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