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Embodied experience and linguistic meaning

Brain and Language, 2003
What role does people's embodied experiences have in their use and understanding of meaning? Most theories in cognitive science view meaning in terms of propositional structures that may be combined to form higher-order complexes in representing the meanings of conversations and texts.
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Meaning and translation in linguistic fieldwork

Studies in Language, 2010
This paper is set within the context of semantic typology, focusing on the collection of semantic data during fieldwork on under-described languages. The study explores central issues of meaning and translation through the example of the investigation of the lexical meaning and part of speech of property-denoting expressions in West Chadic languages ...
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Linguistic meaning and language comprehension

Information Processing & Management, 1983
Abstract Recent developments in cognitive science are assessed as a challenge to the well established view in philosophy of language and linguistics that meaning is inherent to language and is relatively fixed. It is concluded that the challenge is unsuccessful.
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Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form

2020
This book steers a middle course between two opposing conceptions that currently dominate the field of semantics, the logical and cognitive approaches. It brings to light the inadequacies of both frameworks, and argues along with the Columbia School that linguistic semantics must be grounded on the linguistic sign itself and the meaning it conveys ...
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Meaning of Linguistic Signs

2020
The primary function of linguistic signs is to express and convey meaning, and ultimately to communicate. Hence, it is essential to study the issue of meaning so as to reveal the semiotic, systematic, hierarchical, social, ethnic and other characteristics of language. And any attempt to discern the nature of language and linguistic phenomena by casting
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The Primitives of Linguistic Meaning

American Anthropologist, 1997
Semantics: Primes and Universals. Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 500 pp.
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The Problem of Linguistic Meaning

2009
Straightforwardly, language learning would seem to be about matching new forms to old meanings. Learners therefore take the meanings they have already acquired and try to match them to these forms. This learning assumption rests in how all speakers of the world’s languages look out on the same reality with the same mind and will thus break it down into
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A Probabilistic Linguistic Three-Way Decision Method With Regret Theory via Fuzzy c-Means Clustering Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2023
Xueling Ma, Jianming Zhan, Luis Martinez   +2 more
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A New Model for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Based on k-Means Clustering Within Hesitant Linguistic Environment

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2022
Xu-Qi Chen, Chunyan Duan, Hu-Chen Liu
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EXTRA-LINGUISTIC AND LINGUISTIC SOURCES OF LINGUISTIC MEANS

The European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
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