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Woodrow Barfield
Just a few years ago, who would have thought that algorithms would be regularly making important decisions once made by humans, and they would be so complex that we would not be able to fully understand how they made their decisions (even though we rely on their decisions in life-threatening situations). And further, that algorithms […]
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Hannah-Rose Murray
Frederick Douglass speaking locations.
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Christopher D. Johnston, Brandon L. Bartels
The Republicans’ rush to appoint Judge Amy Coney Barrett before the presidential election is yet another example of polarized politicians and citizens fighting over an increasingly polarized Supreme Court. Even before Justice Ginsburg’s death, the Court had all the makings of unprecedented polarization: lots of conservative rulings with fractious (5-4) opinions. American conservatives have reveled […]
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Corinna Hawkes
It’s been hard to make sense of COVID-19. At least, I have found it hard. So many deaths. So many changes to everyday life. So much political strangeness. So much uncertainty about the future. This blog post was originally posted on “The Better Food Journey” and is cross-posted with permission. The blog builds on the […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
Permit as a speech act addresses a future action to be undertaken by the addressee in his own interests, which almost always appears to concur with a Request for a Permit. In the context of social distancing, we often receive Requests for a Permit, such as when tactful others ask for our permission to venture […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
In the following, we discuss the speech act type ‘Invite’. This speech act expresses that the speaker wishes her addressee to know that she is in favour of a future action to be performed by the other, which she believes may involve costs to herself and benefits to the addressee. She also believes however that […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
In this blog we discuss the speech act ‘suggest’. This speech act involves the situation where a speaker is communicating that he/she is as much in favour of the addressee performing a future action as in the latter’s own interests. This speech act category is closely related to the speech act ‘request’, but in the […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
Of the various speech acts used in the wake of COVID-19 and the corresponding need for social distancing, ‘Apologise’ is perhaps the most important. Since the enforcement of social distancing unavoidably leads to moral uproar, we often find ourselves apologising profusely for trying to safeguard our own health – an interesting paradox that can be […]
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Woodrow Barfield
Just a few years ago, who would have thought that algorithms would be regularly making important decisions once made by humans, and they would be so complex that we would not be able to fully understand how they made their decisions (even though we rely on their decisions in life-threatening situations). And further, that algorithms […]
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Hannah-Rose Murray
Frederick Douglass speaking locations....
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Christopher D. Johnston, Brandon L. Bartels
The Republicans’ rush to appoint Judge Amy Coney Barrett before the presidential election is yet another example of polarized politicians and citizens fighting over an increasingly polarized Supreme Court. Even before Justice Ginsburg’s death, the Court had all the makings of unprecedented polarization: lots of conservative rulings with fractious (5-4) opinions. American conservatives have reveled […]
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Corinna Hawkes
It’s been hard to make sense of COVID-19. At least, I have found it hard. So many deaths. So many changes to everyday life. So much political strangeness. So much uncertainty about the future. This blog post was originally posted on “The Better Food Journey” and is cross-posted with permission. The blog builds on the […]
Read More
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
Permit as a speech act addresses a future action to be undertaken by the addressee in his own interests, which almost always appears to concur with a Request for a Permit. In the context of social distancing, we often receive Requests for a Permit, such as when tactful others ask for our permission to venture […]
Read More
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
In the following, we discuss the speech act type ‘Invite’. This speech act expresses that the speaker wishes her addressee to know that she is in favour of a future action to be performed by the other, which she believes may involve costs to herself and benefits to the addressee. She also believes however that […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
In this blog we discuss the speech act ‘suggest’. This speech act involves the situation where a speaker is communicating that he/she is as much in favour of the addressee performing a future action as in the latter’s own interests. This speech act category is closely related to the speech act ‘request’, but in the […]
Read More
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
Of the various speech acts used in the wake of COVID-19 and the corresponding need for social distancing, ‘Apologise’ is perhaps the most important. Since the enforcement of social distancing unavoidably leads to moral uproar, we often find ourselves apologising profusely for trying to safeguard our own health – an interesting paradox that can be […]
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