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Revisiting Ostension in Folkloristics
Semiotic ReviewSemiotic analysis in folkloristics usefully centers on iconicity, ostension, and indexicality as modes of representation active in performances of expressive culture.
John Holmes McDowell
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Ostension and Criminal Legends: Contemporary Horror Tales as Part of Online Youth Lore
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesThis article examines the phenomenon of ostension and criminal legends in the context of contemporary horror tales circulating among Estonian youth, particularly through digital media.
Eda Kalmre
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Argumentación, persuasión y ostensión: la primacía de la retórica en la esfera práctica [PDF]
, 2023 La rehabilitación de la retórica en el siglo XX se ha llevado a cabo básicamente como una “teoría de la argumentación”. Sin embargo, la retórica clásica pone acento en la capacidad del lenguaje de influir en el sujeto más allá de los aspectos puramente ...
Blanco Ilari, Juan Ignacio
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Inferential communication: The primacy of external representations
Mind &Language, EarlyView.We argue that intentionalist accounts of ostensive‐inferential communication fail to adequately explain the role of external representations in human communication. We propose that the contents of a specific form of representational communication, symbolic depictions via spatio‐temporal arrangements of objects, can be inferred without attributing ...
Nima Mussavifard, Gergely Csibra
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Prácticas ostensivas en la enseñanza de la matemática [PDF]
, 2005 Desde el año 1977, en el marco de la teoría de las situaciones didácticas, diferentes investigaciones en didáctica de la matemática mostraron que existe una práctica de enseñanza llamada ostensión o presentación ostensiva de las nociones que identifica a
Fregona, Dilma
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Developmental work on ostensive communication calls for reconsidering existing theoretical accounts within a comprehensive framework of early pragmatics and its development. In this paper, we propose a new perspective on the ontogeny and development of ostensive communication as underpinned by a process of knowledge and representational redescription ...
Edoardo Vaccargiu, Diana Mazzarella
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Visión y vigencia de los relatos narrados por los abuelos [PDF]
, 2015 Spa: La presente ponencia es el resultado de un proceso investigativo, en la población urbana y rural del municipio de Tota, sobre los relatos narrados por los abuelos, que permitió analizarlos a la luz de la teoría de la relevancia. Este modelo permitió
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Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine‐tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine‐tuning arguments generally presuppose that life requires a form of structural complexity only afforded by physicochemical complexity of the sort with which we are ...
Joe Gough
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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“I Showed Him an Open Hand, He Showed me a Fist”
Semiotic ReviewThis essay offers a multimodal performance analysis of a widely documented international folktale. The emergent unfolding of the tale plot, which turns on constrasting interpretations of a series of thematized gestures, illuminates the dynamic tension ...
Richard Bauman
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