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Rethinking constructed action [PDF]

open access: yesSign Language & Linguistics, 2015
We aim to demonstrate the importance of defining linguistic phenomena by usingconstructed actionor CA (i.e. a stretch of discourse that represents one role or combination of roles depicting actions, utterances, thought, attitudes and/or feelings of one or more referents) as an example. The problem is that different assumptions about CA have led to some
Kearsy Cormier   +2 more
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Action Recognition of Taekwondo Unit Actions Using Action Images Constructed with Time-Warped Motion Profiles

open access: yesSensors
Taekwondo has evolved from a traditional martial art into an official Olympic sport. This study introduces a novel action recognition model tailored for Taekwondo unit actions, utilizing joint-motion data acquired via wearable inertial measurement unit ...
Junghwan Lim   +4 more
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Role-taking in two micro-community sign languages: Phylogenetic insights

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
This study aimed to examine the use of role-taking constructions in two micro-community sign languages (SLs): Yucatec Maya SL (YMSL), and Soure SL. Various role-taking types were quantified and changes in gaze direction were annotated on data regarding ...
Emmanuella Martinod, Emmanuella Martinod
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Show Me What You’ve B/Seen: A Brief History of Depiction

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Already at a relatively early stage, modern sign language linguistics focused on the representation of (actions, locations, and motions of) referents (1) through the use of the body and its different articulators and (2) through the use of particular ...
Inez Beukeleers   +2 more
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Defining the Concept of Practical Theology Based on Tabatabaei's Metaphysics of Action [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
The concept of practical theology depends on our idea about action and its relation to theology. The metaphysics of action is a study of the ontological role of action, its position among other things, and its relation to other objects.
Mahdi Saatchi
doaj   +1 more source

Towards non-Archimedean superstrings

open access: yesNuclear Physics B, 2022
An action for a prospect of a p-adic open superstring on a target Minkowski space is proposed. The action is constructed for ‘worldsheet’ fields taking values in the p-adic field Qp, but it is assumed to be obtained from a discrete action on the Bruhat ...
Hugo García-Compeán, Edgar Y. López
doaj   +1 more source

An Understanding of Socially-Constructed Knowledge in the Context of Traditional Game-Playing as Theorems-in-Action

open access: yesRevista Baiana de Educação Matemática, 2020
In this article the authors describe data from an ethnographical study about the playing of Uril, a mancala-type game played in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde.
Ana Lúcia Braz Dias, Juliana Braz Dias
doaj   +3 more sources

Reference switching in sign and speech: grammatical and discourse features across modalities within signed-to-spoken language interpretation

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2020
Human languages contain a variety of tools for referencing agents, locations, arguments of predicates, and other entities that are introduced, described, and attributed actions within sentences.
David Quinto-Pozos   +2 more
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Agent defocusing in two-participant clauses in Finnish Sign Language

open access: yesGlossa, 2019
This article investigates what strategies are used for defocusing the agent in two-participant clauses in FinSL. The question is approached by analyzing a set of data that consists of videotaped informational texts.
Sanna Nordlund
doaj   +2 more sources

WZW action in odd dimensional gauge theories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
It is shown that Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) type actions can be constructed in odd dimensional space-times using Wilson line or Wilson loop. WZW action constructed using Wilson line gives anomalous gauge variations and the WZW action constructed using ...
B. Bertlmann   +5 more
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