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Descriptive Language and Belief
2008AbstractThis chapter takes up the project of analyzing ordinary descriptive belief in terms of the attitude of being for. A first-pass account, according to which believing p is being for proceeding as if p, is developed and dismissed on the basis of the new negation problem: negated descriptive sentences don't turn out to express the right beliefs in ...
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2014
This chapter discusses how the revitalization efforts of Kormakiti Maronite Arabic (KMA) in Cyprus may have influenced the beliefs and ideologies of the community towards its language. KMA is spoken by some members of the Kormakiti Maronite community in Cyprus, where the official languages are Greek and Turkish.
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This chapter discusses how the revitalization efforts of Kormakiti Maronite Arabic (KMA) in Cyprus may have influenced the beliefs and ideologies of the community towards its language. KMA is spoken by some members of the Kormakiti Maronite community in Cyprus, where the official languages are Greek and Turkish.
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An extended logic language for representing belief
1991The DRUMS project is addressing a variety of symbolic and numerical techniques for reasoning under uncertainty and with incomplete information. This paper discusses work which is directed towards identifying a unifying framework which will enable a variety of uncertainty handling techniques to be integrated in a single programming environment.
John Fox 0001 +2 more
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Beliefs about science and beliefs about language
International Journal of Science Education, 1996Researchers have recently shown a growing interest in teachers' and pupils' beliefs about the nature of science, and how these differ from the picture offered by historians, philosophers and sociologists. Tacit beliefs about how scientists work are, however, sustained by unexamined assumptions about language, and this paper explores those assumptions ...
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Belief maintenance in a natural language system
Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence TAI '92, 2003A method for belief maintenance for a natural language system is proposed. Based on uncertainty values and the interlinkage of directly asserted and derived propositions, the method provides a means for the postponement of a decision regarding the reason for a contradiction, and includes algorithms that perform nonmonotonic reasoning on a commonsense ...
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Beliefs about Language Performance
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 1995Stereotypes of the elderly may lead to beliefs about their communication competence. Yb test this hypothesis, the Language in Adulthood Questionnaire (LIA) (Ryan, Kwong See, Meneer, & Trovato, 1992) was used to assess beliefs of young, middle-aged, and elderly adults about their own language skills and those of four elderly targets.
Mary Lee Hummert +2 more
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1984
Quine, we have seen, holds that each language commits the speaker to a particular ontology. He also thinks that language is something to which we subscribe, even if not consciously and deliberately. We can become conscious of it and subject our commitments to questioning and criticism. To do so is to engage in philosophy.
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Quine, we have seen, holds that each language commits the speaker to a particular ontology. He also thinks that language is something to which we subscribe, even if not consciously and deliberately. We can become conscious of it and subject our commitments to questioning and criticism. To do so is to engage in philosophy.
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Language Beliefs and the Management of Endangered Languages
2014Language beliefs and ideologies constitute a central component of a theory of language policy. The other interrelated but independent components are the language practices of the community being studied and language management. This chapter explores the relationship between beliefs and management, especially with reference to efforts to manage ...
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Narrating Beliefs: A Language Ideologies Approach to Teacher Beliefs
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012This article explores how we can better understand the language ideologies of teachers working with second language learners through narrative analysis. This analysis draws on ethnographic data collected in an urban high school with a predominant Latina/o population and nearly a quarter designated as English learners.
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Ordinary language and ordinary belief
Philosophical Studies, 1954be relevant. It is my understanding that these Oxford "philosophical analysts" (if Mr. Copi will pardon the phrase) do not believe that everything that people say-whether common men or philosophers-is correct. Their position is, according to Mr. Copi, "never explicitly formulated." Not only has it been explicitly formulated in a number of papers, had ...
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