Varol Akman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Varol Akman plays a role.
2016 The truth about “it is true that…” Pragmatics & Cognition 23:2, pp. 284–299 | Article
Deflationism, one of the influential philosophical doctrines of truth, holds that there is no property of truth, and that overt uses of the predicate “true” are redundant. However, the hypothetical examples used by theorists to exemplify deflationism are isolated sentences, offering little to… read more
2007 Similar situations Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 31–54 | Article
This paper studies the notion of similarity with reference to situations of situation theory. While the commonsense notion of two situations resembling each other appears to be valuable in our daily life, we show that it is problematic for the same reasons researchers have been pointing out in… read more
2005 On Strawsonian contexts Pragmatics & Cognition 13:2, pp. 363–382 | Article
P.F. Strawson proposed in the early seventies a threefold distinction regarding how context bears on the meaning of ‘what is said’ when a sentence is uttered. The proposal was somewhat tentative and, being aware of this aspect, Strawson himself raised various questions to make it more adequate. In… read more
1998 An Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:1, pp. 33–57 | Article
Punctuation has usually been ignored by researchers in computational linguistics over the years. Recently, it has been realized that a true understanding of written language will be impossible if punctuation marks are not taken into account. This paper contains the details of a computer-aided… read more
1998 An Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation Theory Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Natural Language: Selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICML ’96), Tarragona, 1996, Martín-Vide, Carlos (ed.), pp. 359–374 | Article