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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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Concept Application as Social Activity

Crítica, 2018
En este ensayo se parte del problema de la diversidad cultural y de su explicación. Las diversas culturas, y diversos grupos dentro de cierta cultura, deben verse como racionales, so pena de caer en un inadmisible etnocentrismo, aunqne sostengan ...
Barry Barnes
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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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Communication in relevance theory

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998
Sperber and Wilson (1995) ground their definition of communication on their criticism of Grice's intentional definition of non-natural meaning. In such a perspective, communication is considered as an act rather than as a process.
Franken, Nathalie
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Věci/znaky, jazyky/komunikace, kultura a cena lidského vědomí: o konstrukci kulturních hodnot „zdola“ a novém humanismu // Things/signs, languages/communication, culture and the costs of consciousness: On bottom-up construction of cultural values and new humanism [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2016
This transdisciplinary study (involving humanities, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy) contrasts the reductionist ideological “top-down” focus on the construction of our cultural “world” with the meandering technical “bottom-up” approach ...
Emil Volek
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Ostension and Demonstrative Reference [PDF]

, 2014
. The strong similarity between the use of ostension and that of a simple demonstrative to predicate something of an object seems to conflict with equally strong intuitions according to which, while “this” does usually refer to an ...
Stefanov, Gheorghe
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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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Semantics through Reference to the Unknown [PDF]

, 2016
In this paper, I dwell on a particular distinction introduced by Ilhan Inan—the distinction between ostensible and inostensible use of our language. The distinction applies to singular terms, such as proper names and definite descriptions, or to general ...
Aran, Arslan
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From Popular Culture to Popular Custom, and Back Again : A love-lock's tale [PDF]

, 2019
Walk over a major bridge in a Western city and chances are you will come across at least one or two love-locks. These are padlocks inscribed with names or initials and attached to a public structure, typically by a couple in declaration of romantic ...
Houlbrook, Ceri
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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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