Steven Cushing

List of John Benjamins publications in which Steven Cushing is involved.

Cushing, Steven 2001 Critique of puerile reason: A pragmatic look at argumentation in J.P. Moreland’s The Creation Hypothesis Pragmatics 11:2, pp. 155–192 | Article

Key arguments in J.P. Moreland’s The Creation Hypothesis that purport to provide a scientific basis for creationism as an alternative to evolutionary theory are examined. Arguments based on Bayes’ theorem, the existence of intracable mathematical problems, the close correspondence between the… read more

Cushing, Steven 1997 Pragmatic Parameters in Non-Modal Meanings: An example from political discourse Political Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 53–67 | Article

Cushing, Steven 1991 Explaining a missing modal meaning: Ideology and paradigm as pragmatic parameter Levels of Linguistic Adaptation: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 19–32 | Article

Cushing, Steven 1979 Semantic Considerations in Natural Language: Crosslinguistic Evidence and Morphological Motivation Studies in Language 3:2, pp. 181–201 | Article