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Illustrating continuity between linguistic and non-linguistic human communication and expression

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023
Abstract This commentary presents two illustrations, from the world of poker, of the continuity between linguistic and non-linguistic communication and expression, in support of Heintz & Scott-Phillips's account of the evolution of human expression and communication. I also come across the presumption of relevance in the context of a poker table.
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Humanism and linguistic diversity

European Review, 1999
Traditional humanism emphasized equal rights for all human beings, and consequently the similarity of human beings. Recently it has been pointed out that postmodernism, which can be considered as a modern humanism, focuses on the diversity of mankind. In this paper it is claimed that these two aspects – sameness and diversity of human beings – are both
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Linguistic Human Rights

1995
Only a few hundred of the world's 6,000-7,000 languages have any kind of official status, and it is only speakers of official languages (speakers of dominant majority languages) who enjoy all linguistic human rights. As many of the collected papers in this book document, most linguistic minorities are deprived of these rights.
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Linguistic Human Rights

2012
AbstractGenuine peaceful contact presupposes a mutual will to try to understand the other party's signed or spoken signals and symbols; to accommodate, and to learn at least some of them (often using a pidgin, an auxiliary simplified language), or to learn a common lingua franca, foreign to both.
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Linguistic Estimations of Human Attributes

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2016
Qualitative linguistic data provides unique, valuable information that can only come from human observers. Data fusion systems find it challenging to incorporate this “soft data” as they are primarily designed to analyze quantitative, hard-sensor data with consistent formats and qualified error characteristics.
David LaVergne, Judith Tiferes, Michael Jenkins, Geoff Gross, Ann Bisantz   +4 more
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Linguistic Human Rights and Mobility

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
The Linguistic Human Rights (LHRs) paradigm is motivated by the desire to combat linguistic discrimination, where speakers of discriminated languages find themselves unable to use their preferred language in society at large. However, in an increasingly globalised world where speakers may feel the need or the desire to travel across state boundaries ...
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Linguistic Idealism and Human Essence

2022
Abstract When Anscombe says in ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ that we should jettison talk of ‘moral obligation’, ‘moral duty’, and ‘moral ought’, she is thinking in part about the ‘use of modal notions’ that is characteristic of a statement of a rule, right, or promise.
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PETAR GUBERINA’S LINGUISTICS OF HUMAN SPEECH

2018
The year 2016 was marked by the centenary of the publication of the Course in General Linguistics (Cours de linguistique générale) by Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), the key event for the development of linguistics as a scientific discipline and for the development of structuralism in twentieth-century linguistics and social sciences.
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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Toward a Human Linguistics

College English, 1976
David E. Eskey, Walt Wolfram, Ralph W. Fasold   +2 more
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