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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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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This article aims at exploring the existing ideas of Angkola’s local wisdom with relevance to the roles of philosophy, culture, language, and Islam. This research employed the ethnographic method which utilised the data from figurative peoples in Angkola
Sumper M. Harahap, Hamka Hamka
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Collaborative learning of new information in older age: a systematic review
Ageing is accompanied by a multitude of changes in cognitive abilities, which in turn affect learning. Learning collaboratively may benefit older adults by negating some of these age-related changes.
Kelly Wolfe +3 more
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Common Sense and Ordinary Language: Wittgenstein and Austin [PDF]
What role does ‘ordinary language philosophy’ play in the defense of common sense beliefs? J.L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein each give central place to ordinary language in their responses to skeptical challenges to common sense beliefs. But Austin and
Lawlor, Krista
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Understanding a philosophical text. The problem of “meaning” in Jayanta’s Nyāyamañjarī, Book 5 [PDF]
The authors make an attempt to comparatively analyse some stances of the Old Indian philosophy of language, exemplified by the Medieval Indian author Jayanta, along with the Western tradition of the analytical philosophy of language, and to highlight the
Artemij Keidan, Elisa Freschi
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Long hair and short wit: English-Serbian parallels in proverbs describing women [PDF]
Proverbs as a genre of folklore contain traditional values of a given culture and views upheld by its members. They form a repository for linguistic analysis, the foundation of which is the relationship between language, culture and society. The analysis
Jevrić Tamara M. +1 more
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Categorization and Analysis of Student Errors in the Serbian Language Exam Classes
The subject of this paper is identifying the most common students‘ mistakes in teaching lessons of the Serbian Language which are a part of the exam for the academic course Professional Methodological Practice of Teaching Serbian Language at the Faculty ...
Marina S. Janjić +1 more
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