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The EXPRESS project aims to develop a comprehensive theory of rejection as a distinct speech act, separate from negative assertions. It seeks to enhance our understanding of language and conversation through a new logical framework.
Disagreement is a pervasive feature of human life, which finds linguistic expression in the speech-act of rejection.
If you assert that Amsterdam is in Belgium, I can express my dissent by responding 'No', thereby rejecting your assertion.In the study of human language, assertion has taken centre stage and the investigation of rejection traditionally regarded as a chapter in the study of assertion.
Thus, the orthodox treatment of rejection equates it with negative assertion, so that rejecting th…
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