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A cognitive-semantic analysis of the English lexical unit "in"
Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013 The standard semantic description of English in has been traditionally understood as a matter of geometric configuration of the participants in the spatial relation. The landmark is conceived of as an area or volume, or as a three-dimensional entity, the
Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
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UNDERSTANDING PREPOSITIONS THROUGH COGNITIVE GRAMMAR. A CASE OF IN [PDF]
, 2004 Poly - semantic nature of prepositions has been discussed in linguistic literature and confirmed by language data. In the majority of research within cognitive linguistics prepositions have been approached as predicates organising entities in space, with
Turewicz, prof. Kamila
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Conceptualizing meaning = Conceitualizando significado
Veritas, 2012 Descrições têm sido o objeto da atenção de muitos filósofos. O objetivo desse artigo é investigar o significado daquelas descrições que, devido ao caráter particular dos objetos de descrição, foram interpretadas de diferentes modos, e investigar em que sentido alguém é capaz de falar sobre a existência (ou a não-existência) de um objeto de descrição ...
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Finite groups in Axiomatic Index Number Theory [PDF]
In this paper we adopt Group Theory to investigate the symmetry and invariance properties of price index numbers. An alternative treatment is given to the study of the reversibilty axioms, that clarifies their meaning and allows for a conceptual ...
Marco Fattore
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Towards ontology interoperability through conceptual groundings [PDF]
, 2008 . The widespread use of ontologies raises the need to resolve heterogeneities between distinct conceptualisations in order to support interoperability.
Dietze, Stefan, Domingue, John
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On the Conceptual Insufficiency of Toleration and the Quest for a Superseding Concept [PDF]
, 2019 The concept of toleration occupies an important position in contemporary societal debates. I will analyse the concept by considering the apparent inconsistency between what I regard as the genuine meaning of the concept of toleration ...
Klix, Nikolai
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Goffman BITCHES. Rhetorical Attribution and the Perversion of Meaning [PDF]
, 2012 This study explores a sequence of rhetorically aggressive behavior on a Swedish parental forum as a way of attributing categories of petty value upon the opponent; while at the same time perform face saving textual activities.
Alstam, Kristina
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Nursing Open, 2019 Aim To investigate the meaning of support groups and the features of these groups that African American (AA) women view as improving adherence to high blood pressure (HBP) treatment.
Marie N. Fongwa +2 more
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Conceptual engineering, speaker-meaning and philosophy
Inquiry, 2020 We sometimes seek to change and improve our conceptual repertoire in some way. This is called ‘conceptual engineering’. In recent work, I have defended the ‘Speaker-Meaning Picture’ of conceptual engineering. Independently, while critiquing the conceptual engineering literature, Max Deutsch has argued against understanding conceptual engineering in ...
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, 2011 Laws of nature take center stage in philosophy of science. Laws are usually believed to stand in a tight conceptual relation to many important key concepts such as causation, explanation, confirmation, determinism, counterfactuals etc.
Hüttemann, Andreas +2 more
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