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Politeness in early Ptolemaic papyri: a frame-based approach
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper deals with the expression of linguistic politeness in early Hellenistic documentary papyrus letters, through a data-oriented approach exploiting the notion of “frame” (cf. terkourafi 2001), which accounts for ...
The (cyclical) path towards impoliteness in electoral debates
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This work proposes, first, an approach to the agonal character of electoral debates, and then analyses the nature of the acts of (im)politeness that appear in them. From there, it presents a triangular theoretical-methodological ...
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History, Technology, and Politics: the political uses of railways in Portugal (1850-1900)
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
In the nineteenth century, Portugal undertook a public works programme, spearheaded by railways, seeking the modernisation of the country. In this paper, I use the approach of technopolitics to study how the implementation ...
Bi-directionality and time in causal relationships
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This paper aims to provide an answer to James Woodward’s article “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”. It will be conjectured that, when causal directionality depends on the experimental design, it is ...
How to be impolite in ancient Greek: silencers and dismissals in Greek comedy
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, Their communicative functions and their gender distribution in three comedies by aristophanes. ...
Rectification note to “Scientific models and metalinguistic negotiation”: (Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science,34(2), 277-295)
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Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes: a response to Woodward on causal and explanatory asymmetries
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of ...
The machine-like repair of aging. Disentangling the key assumptions of the SENS agenda
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
The possibility of curing aging is currently generating hopes and concerns among entrepreneurs, experts, and the general public. This article aims to clarify some of the key assumptions of the Strategies for Engineered ...
Kripke’s Gödel case: descriptive ambiguity and its experimental interpretation
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
Kripke toma el caso Gödel como un contraejemplo a las teorías descriptivistas de la referencia. Ma-chery et al. cuestionan la validez del caso presentado por Kripke, y han llevado a cabo estudios empíricos para mos-trar ...