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Mental Spaces Theory and Multilayered Meaning Construction. [PDF]
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn SciABSTRACT Conceptualization underlying language use is an unconscious and automatic process that interacts with the general human cognitive faculty. The main purpose of Mental Spaces Theory (MST), as one of the major frameworks in Cognitive Linguistics, is to shed light on this process and model it in cognitively motivated ways.
Kwon I.
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Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Interactive Environment of Film Discourse Based on Deep Learning.
J Environ Public Health, 2022 With the advent of the information age, language is no longer the only way to construct meaning. Besides language, a variety of social symbols, such as gestures, images, music, three‐dimensional animation, and so on, are more and more involved in the social practice of meaning construction.
Man S, Li Z.
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Literature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines David Lodge's novel Deaf Sentence (2008), which focuses on the life of Desmond, a retired professor of linguistics. I argue that this text offers a standpoint through which readers can visualise the global phenomenon of population ageing and address the question of global responsibility. I look at Deaf Sentence within the
Stefano Rossoni
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Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 65-79, Autumn (Fall) 2023., 2023 Abstract Country differences in response styles (RS) may jeopardize cross‐country comparability of Likert‐type scales. When adjusting for rather than investigating RS is the primary goal, it seems advantageous to impose minimal assumptions on RS structures and leverage information from multiple scales for RS measurement.
Esther Ulitzsch +2 more
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Constructions of speech and thought representation
WIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 14, Issue 2, March/April 2023., 2023 A lot of our talk is about talk and thought, and linguists study the ways language has devised to provide access to the contents of speech and thought, real or fictive. (Image: detail of work by Liz Craft, “Mirror Cells” exhibition, 2016, Whitney Museum of American Art.) Abstract A lot of what humans communicate about concerns cognitive contents of ...
Lieven Vandelanotte
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A Method for Adjusting the Semantic Acceptability of English Corpora Based on the Kano Model
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 The Semantic Accessibility Scale (SAS) is one of the criteria for systematically assessing the semantic readability of corpus texts. With the advent of the Internet, English language content has been widely distributed. This constitutes an adequate corpus for corpus research.
Xuyan Fan, Mukesh Soni
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Chinese Cross‐Language Definition Recognition Method Based on DE‐BP Model
Scientific Programming, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 As an important linguistic phenomenon in verbal communication, relayed speech exists in a large number of news texts and is also one of the most prominent features of the Chinese language. However, at present, there are few systematic comparative studies on the recognition of the relayed problems in Chinese language crossover, and the existing methods ...
Yanxia Shen +3 more
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Early modern reader management: begin+infinitive as a discourse marker in P. C. Hooft’s Dutch prose
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 691-712, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article combines linguistic, rhetorical and material perspectives on early modern reader management in order to investigate how the Dutch historian P. C. Hooft (1581–1647) guided his readers through a new genre: humanist history written in the vernacular.
Cora van de Poppe
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The Big Short's Incoherence, Documentary Aesthetics, and Use of Direct Address
, 2022 The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 1037-1061, October 2022.
Wickham Clayton
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Style in Literary Translation: A Practical Perspective
Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2016 This paper explores a stylistic approach to translating literary texts from Arabic into English and vice versa. It is held that in order to be in a position to render literary texts effectively and accurately, one needs to: (1) analyze and describe ...
Ali Almanna, Mohammed Farghal
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