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CONSIDERATIONS SUR LA POLYSEMIE DES UNITES SYNTAXIQUES EN FRANÇAIS: APPROCHES DIDACTIQUES
Sursele studiate ne permit să constatăm caracterul masiv al polisemiei în limbă. Acest fenomen se impune ca una dintre universaliile limbii. Drept dovadă convingătoare servesc multiplele dicţionare explicative ce atestă prezenţa unui număr imens de ...
Lidia MORARU
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Embedding mental files in the world
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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The determination of what is said and what is implied
Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
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ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang +3 more
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The Polysemy in Georges Perec’s Crossword: Culioli’s Modelling Approach
This article presents a discussion on polysemy in a crossword by Perec. We apply Culioli’s modelling approach in terms of operation of location and construction of a notion and its notional domain.
Yasena Chantova
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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
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Polysemy and semantic relations in Aquilan prepositions [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of polysemy and related semantic relations emerging in prepositions belonging to Aquilan, a dialect of Italian.
Long, Haiping, Alessio Ursini, Francesco
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ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts +4 more
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To See or Not To See. The Polysemy of the Word עין in the Isaac Narratives (Gen 17-35)
This article discusses the polysemy of the word עיןin the Isaac narratives (Gen 17-35). The word's given ambivalent nature is exploited on every level. It fits the major themes in the Isaac story as well as the small nuances in individual sentences.
Karolien Vermeulen
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An Expanded Model for Perceptual Norming: Insights From Japanese Ideophones
Abstract Iconicity is inherently grounded in sensory experience, yet few studies investigate how sensory information is packaged in iconic words. We present perceptual strength ratings for Japanese ideophones, to ask how sensory information is encoded in this word class.
Bonnie McLean +3 more
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