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Nāgārjuna and the Philosophy of Language [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the key points of Nāgārjuna’s discussion of problems relating to the philosophy of language. We will focus on two works from Nāgārjuna’s yukti-corpus that address these matters most explicitly, the Vigrahavyāvartanī (VV) and the Vaidalyaprakaraṇa (VP).
Jan Westerhoff
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Embodied theories of semantic cognition predict that brain regions involved in motion perception are engaged when people comprehend motion concepts expressed in language. Left lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) is implicated in both motion perception
Yueyang Zhang +3 more
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Linguoculturological aspects of the lexeme cat in the Serbian language [PDF]
The research was conducted in order to show the dominant models of thinking related to the word for ‘cat’ in the Serbian language community. The conceptualization of the cat was examined based on the meaning of lexical units: the lexeme cat and ...
Štrbac Gordana R., Štasni Gordana R.
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Background There is limited evidence on how the classification of maternal metabolic syndrome during pregnancy affects children’s developmental outcomes and the possible mediators of this association.
Janell Kwok +5 more
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How can philosophy of language help us navigate the political news cycle? [PDF]
In this chapter, I try to answer the above question, and another question that it presupposes: can philosophy of language help us navigate the political news cycle?
Marques, Teresa
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У овом раду разматрају се могућности превођења сталних епитета на сродни словенски језик (са српског на руски) на грађи Његошевог спева Шћепан Мали и руског превода В. Корнилова.
Jelena R. Bajovic +2 more
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The ease with which narratives are understood belies the complexity of the information being conveyed and the cognitive processes that support comprehension.
Melissa Thye +2 more
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A common neural code for meaning in discourse production and comprehension
How does the brain code the meanings conveyed by language? Neuroimaging studies have investigated this by linking neural activity patterns during discourse comprehension to semantic models of language content.
Tanvi Patel +3 more
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Stimulus-independent neural coding of event semantics: Evidence from cross-sentence fMRI decoding
Multivariate neuroimaging studies indicate that the brain represents word and object concepts in a format that readily generalises across stimuli. Here we investigated whether this was true for neural representations of simple events described using ...
Aliff Asyraff +3 more
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Barking up the right tree: Univariate and multivariate fMRI analyses of homonym comprehension
Homonyms are a critical test case for investigating how the brain resolves ambiguity in language and, more generally, how context influences semantic processing. Previous neuroimaging studies have associated processing of homonyms with greater engagement
Paul Hoffman, Andres Tamm
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