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“The Sort of Story That Has You Covering Your Mirrors”

Semiotic Review, 2013
As a monster, Slender Man epitomizes the simultaneous alienness and familiarity that characterizes the uncanny. Created by users on the Something Awful forums, the Slender Man’s most common depiction is as a preternaturally tall, skinny humanoid with a ...
Jeffrey Tolbert
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The Exploitation of Phenomena Related to Enunciation in a French as a Foreign Language Course Book: The Édito Example

Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
This study aims to examine certain phenomena concerning enunciation and draw from there the didactic implications in the scope of the exploitation of these phenomena in a French as a Foreign Language course book.
Can Denizci
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Revisiting Ostension in Folkloristics

Semiotic Review
Semiotic 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 Studies
This 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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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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Redescribing early pragmatics

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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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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Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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