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Joint attention on actions: acquiring verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contexts
Journal of Child Language, 1992ABSTRACTTwo studies of verb learning are reported. The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts. Of particular interest was the comparison of ostensive contexts – in which word and referent were simultaneously present in the child's perceptual field – to non-ostensive contexts. In a
M, Tomasello, A C, Kruger
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Philosophy of Science, 1960
The first part deals with the problem of the external form of ostensive definition. It is concluded that the definition statement is not complete. The proper form of this statement is not a sentence, but a sentential function, namely a sentential function of the type: “IIx [N(x) = x is in the respect R and in the degree D such as A, B ...
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The first part deals with the problem of the external form of ostensive definition. It is concluded that the definition statement is not complete. The proper form of this statement is not a sentence, but a sentential function, namely a sentential function of the type: “IIx [N(x) = x is in the respect R and in the degree D such as A, B ...
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Towards a Stylistics of the Modes of Ostension
Theatre Research International, 1993Patrice Pavis offers an excellent analysis of ostension in his dictionary of theatre. Ostension (Latin ostendere , to show), he writes, is an essential feature of performance. The expression ‘theatrical ostension’ calls to mind quite naturally the notions of set, stage properties, body ...
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Ostensive definition in vocabulary teaching
Journal of Child Language, 1980ABSTRACTOstensive definitions of words are ambiguous as to their referent. In a study of 40 mother–infant dyads engaged in looking at picture-books, it was found that 95% of ostensive definitions referred to the whole object depicted, rather than to its parts, attributes or actions.
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On the Borders of the Ostensive
2018This chapter studies uses of blushing as emotional expression both independently and in combination with the scalar expression almost in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. Introducing the notion of ‘emotional vigilance’, it argues that uses of involuntary emotional expression play an essential role in the communicative effect of the novel and are ...
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2016
I draw on Haugeland and a Haugelandian reading of Heidegger to give an ostensive theory of assertion: to assert the truth of a claim is to engage in a kind of ostensive act. Crucially, ostensive acts are first and foremost social acts; hence truth-talk has its first and most natural home in communicative interactions.
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I draw on Haugeland and a Haugelandian reading of Heidegger to give an ostensive theory of assertion: to assert the truth of a claim is to engage in a kind of ostensive act. Crucially, ostensive acts are first and foremost social acts; hence truth-talk has its first and most natural home in communicative interactions.
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The Varieties of Ostensive Experience
2023This chapter establishes the conceptual groundwork for understanding legend trips. In doing so, it outlines how legends can become reality through ostension: influencing people’s behaviors and society itself. It first introduces “ostension” as a framework through which to understand legend trips and then examines the various forms ostension takes ...
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