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Ontology After Folk Psychology; or, Why Eliminativists Should Be Mental Fictionalists
ABSTRACT Mental fictionalism holds that folk psychology should be regarded as a kind of fiction. The present version gives a Lewisian prefix semantics for mentalistic discourse, where roughly, a mentalistic sentence “p” is true iff “p” is deducible from the folk psychological fiction.
Ted Parent
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Metalanguage and Learning Grammar among Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]
This research was conducted on Iranian EFL learners in Tehran Institute of Technology (The West Branch) to examine the effect of teachers’ metalanguage on learners’ learning of grammatical points.
Elhami, Ali, Roshan, Anita
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Abstract The term semantic primitives refers to a set of basic, atomic concepts from which all other (compound) concepts are constructed. It presupposes the principle of compositionality—the idea that complex items or expressions can be formed by combining simpler constituents.
Birger Hjørland
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FEATURES OF USE OF METALANGUAGE MEANS IN MODERN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS
The article is devoted to the sociolinguistic features of the British press, correlating with their information-content and impact potential on the reader through various metalanguage means.
J. Pirverdieva
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Barthes et le lexique de la critique
In the works of Barthes, the vocabulary of criticism constitutes a stumbling block between the scientific pretention to the objectivity and the mobility of the meaning.
Alain Trouvé
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Natural Science Textbooks in the Context of Research on Metalanguage
Ability to write Natural Science textbooks in a clear and interesting manner is a very demanding task, but the use of numerous metatextemes can help the authors to achieve it.
Ida Skubis
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In this paper, The Professional Imaginary of Writing Pedagogy is presented as an ideal. This imaginary brings teacher knowledge about the social imaginary for literacy education into relation with teacher professional knowledge and beliefs about writing, to promote pedagogies and practices for writing that are inclusive, expansive, responsive and ...
Clare Dowdall
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Model‐Based Semantics: Doing Without Meaning Constitution
Abstract This paper introduces a model‐based account of meaning, arguing that meaning properties reside in models rather than in the external world. Building on this view, it explores how such an instrumentalist framework can engage critically with various concerns raised by Wittgenstein, Quine, and Kripke[nstein]—each of whom voiced scepticism toward ...
Pietro Salis
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Abstract One of the most influential articles in the history of literacy education has been ‘A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures’ co‐written by the New London Group in 1996. This seminal article introduced multiliteracies pedagogy, developed the theoretical framework for why it was needed, and outlined how teachers, curriculum ...
Clarence Green, Iain Giblin
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Pour une théorie de la réception du discours grammatical
Language scholars usually show little concern for the reception of abstract grammatical concepts by the common folk, their highest priority being the production of accurate metalinguistic descriptions.
Jean-Rémi Lapaire
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