Linguística Forense: novas aplicações e desafios no contexto da Língua Portuguesa: apresentação

What is the difference between Hamlet and me? Fiction, metaphysics and the nature of our moral thinking

Starting from the main current views this essay considers whether entities (e.g. characters) in fiction should be viewed as abstract objects. I highlight some features of the historical concrete-abstract distinction, and, in particular, how entities in fiction are involved in our moral thinking. Here I call attention to an aspect of moral thinking orthogonal to that which currently divides moral realists and moral fictionalists and sketch an argument for fictional entities being in a specific...

Alan Turing e a Filosofia da Mente

Deícticos e persuasão no discurso publicitário

In this text we analyze some syntactic and semantic aspects of the light verb dar 'to give' in European Portuguese, arguing that there are, at least, two distinct values of this light verb: one where it has three arguments (DAR 2) and, therefore, it is close to the corresponding full verb (DAR 1) and other value in which it is truly a light verb and it has, at least apparently, two arguments and it is therefore not ditransitive (DAR 3). We propose that the light verb DAR 2 is generated in a l...