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Explaining Change in Language: A Cybersemiotic Perspective
Entropy, 2009 One of the greatest conundrums in semiotics and linguistics is explaining why change occurs in communication systems. The descriptive apparatus of how change occurs has been developed in great detail since at least the nineteenth century, but a viable ...
Marcel Danesi
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Toward Cognitively Constrained Models of Language Processing: A Review
Frontiers in Communication, 2017 Language processing is not an isolated capacity, but is embedded in other aspects of our cognition. However, it is still largely unexplored to what extent and how language processing interacts with general cognitive resources.
Margreet Vogelzang +8 more
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The interaction and rhetorical conflict between systemic linguistics and generative linguistics
Journal of World Languages, 2022 The distinction of systemic linguistics and generative linguistics has led to more problems for systemicists than for generativists: Halliday’s theory has been widely applied but has not been adequately valued as an influential strand of functional ...
Feng Zongxin
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Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 A critical survey of various positions on the nature, use, possession, and analysis of normative concepts. We frame our treatment around G.E. Moore’s Open Question Argument, and the ways metaethicists have responded by departing from a Classical Theory ...
Finlay, Stephen, Laskowski, N. G.
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Metaphor in Analytic Philosophy and Cognitive Science [PDF]
, 2019 This article surveys theories of metaphor in analytic philosophy and cognitive science. In particular, it focuses on contemporary semantic, pragmatic and non-cognitivist theories of linguistic metaphor and on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory advanced by ...
Mácha, Jakub
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How Much Data Does Linguistic Theory Need? On the Tolerance Principle of Linguistic Theorizing
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Yang's (2016) Tolerance Principle describes with incredible precision how many exceptions the mechanisms of child language acquisition can tolerate to induce a productive rule, and is a notable advance in the long-standing controversy as to the amount of
José-Luis Mendívil-Giró
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Editorial. Clinical pragmatics: an emergentist perspective [PDF]
, 2005 [First Paragraph] Clinical pragmatics has been a major growth area in clinical linguistics and speech and language pathology over the past two decades. Its scope is vast: if we define pragmatics in broad terms, there are no communicative disorders which ...
Perkins, Michael R
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Representing syntax by means of properties: a formal framework for descriptive approaches
Journal of Language Modelling, 2016 Linguistic description and language modelling need to be formally sound and complete while still being supported by data. We present a linguistic framework that bridges such formal and descriptive requirements, based on the representation of syntactic ...
Philippe Blache
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 This work examines the nature of the so-called “mid-level generalizations of generative linguistics” (MLGs). In 2015, Generative Syntax in the 21st Century: The Road Ahead was organized.
Leivada Evelina
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Behavioral SciencesThe scientific literature presents evidence of the processes involved in creating and developing protocols aimed at maintaining a safe educational and work environment that prevents gender violence in universities, which has shown negative ...
Alba Crespo-López +2 more
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