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Commissive Speech Act in the Movie John Wick Chapter 2

Lingual, 2020
Commisive is a kind of speech acts that used by the speakers to commit themselves to some future course action. It expresses the speaker’s attention to do something on some future action. This study concerned on finding out the types of commissive speech
I Wayan Juniartha, Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi, I Made Yogi Wijaya   +2 more
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An Ethnolinguistic Study on the Lexicon in Haul Bungah Tradition

Suar Betang, 2023
This research aims to identify and explain the meaning of various terms contained in the lexicon of Haul Bungah tradition and the cultural values reflected in these terms. The data of this research are terms related to aul Bungah tradition.
Dian Karimah Wildani
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The meaning of meaning-fallibilism [PDF]

, 2005
Much discussion of meaning by philosophers over the last 300 years has been predicated on a Cartesian first-person authority (i.e. ‘infallibilism’) with respect to what one’s terms mean.
Legg, Catherine
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Mean, What do You Mean? [PDF]

The American Statistician, 2016
ABSTRACTWhen teaching statistics we often resort to several notions of mean, such as arithmetic mean, geometric mean, and harmonic mean, and hence the student is often left with the question: The word mean appears in all such concepts, so what is actually a mean?
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‘Well, if you want to play with fire, make sure the flames are tamed’: investigating the integration of idiom literal completions across literal and creative contexts

Language and Cognition
This study investigates the integration of literal completions of idiomatic multiword expressions (MWEs) into two linguistic contexts: one promoting a literal interpretation and the other a figurative one, requiring reinterpretation to align with ...
Irene Pagliai
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A scientific rationale for consciousness

Substantia, 2019
Consciousness is a concept that can be easily experimented but not easily defined. We show that the same observation applies to information, entropy and even energy.
Marc Henry, Jean-Pierre Gerbaulet
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Evaluating Scoped Meaning Representations [PDF]

, 2018
Semantic parsing offers many opportunities to improve natural language understanding. We present a semantically annotated parallel corpus for English, German, Italian, and Dutch where sentences are aligned with scoped meaning representations in order to ...
Abzianidze, Lasha, Bos, Johan, Haagsma, Hessel, van Noord, Rik   +3 more
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FAIR Photos – Transforming a Collection of Two Million Historical Press Photos into Five Star Data

Journal of Open Humanities Data
The FAIR Photos project enriched the metadata of the Press Agency De Boer collection, comprising two million press photos (1945–2005) from the North Holland Archives in The Netherlands.
Leon van Wissen, Nico Vriend, Antoinet Nijssen, Lars Vereecken, Menno den Engelse   +4 more
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Green Spirituality and Physical Culture. Extreme Sports and the Imagery of Wilderness

Societies, 2018
In an area of increasingly widespread practices, the strengthening of the self through physical activities is exponentially reinforced by the inflexible laws of wild nature, now seen as a supreme judge.
Antonio Camorrino
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Her Meaning, My Meaning, Our Meanings [PDF]

, 2013
One of the most special places in the world to me is that random collection of marble and skyscraper steel at the end of the National Mall known as the Lincoln Memorial. I\u27ve had so many amazing experiences there.
Rudy, John M.
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