Maria Paola Tenchini

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Paola Tenchini plays a role.

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In the logical-psychological-linguistic contributions of the German area between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, Philipp Wegener is the scholar who stresses the role of ethics as the precondition for the acquisition and use of language. His considerations are embedded in a theoretical… read more
This contribution aims to introduce Wegener’s defense of the notion of Wortsatz (word sentence) as a construction having a sentence status within the debate about the notion and the definition of sentence and its structure that developed in Germany during the second half of the nineteenth… read more
Tenchini, Maria Paola and Aldo Frigerio 2016 A multi-act perspective on slursPejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 167–186 | Article
This paper proposes a semantic interpretation of slurs based on a multi-speech act theory. According to this perspective, when a speaker utters a sentence containing a slur, he or she performs two different speech acts, one of which, following Searle’s taxonomy, is an expressive one. Therefore,… read more