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"Comparative analysis of the mythological semantics of the linguistic image of the giant on the material of Russian, Ossetian and English folklore" [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2018
The author reveals the features of the verbalization of the image of the fairy-tale hero, analyzing the mythological semantics of the individual components of the linguistic portrait and defining the linguistic and national-cultural component of the ...
Tboeva Z.E.
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A Memetic Algorithm for Solving the Robust Influence Maximization Problem on Complex Networks against Structural Failures

open access: yesSensors, 2022
Many transport systems in the real world can be modeled as networked systems. Due to limited resources, only a few nodes can be selected as seeds in the system, whose role is to spread required information or control signals as widely as possible.
Delin Huang   +3 more
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Ceteris paribus conditionals and comparative normalcy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Our understanding of subjunctive conditionals has been greatly enhanced through the use of possible world semantics and, more precisely, by the idea that they involve variably strict quantification over possible worlds. I propose to extend this treatment
Smith, M.
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Grounding Possible Worlds Semantics in Experiential Semantics [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 3d Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), 2010
Probabilistic Logic Networks (PLN), a comprehensive framework for uncertain inference currently in use in the OpenCog and Novamente Cognition Engine AGI software architectures, has previously been described in terms of the “experiential semantics” of an intelligent agent embodied in a world.
Ben Goertzel, Matthew Ikle
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Language and scientific explanation: Where does semantics fit in? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception,
Asoulin, Eran
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POSSIBLE WORLDS FOR FICTION. A RECONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH, WITH A PRACTICAL OUTLOOK INTO IAN MCEWAN’S ATONEMENT, ON CHESIL BEACH AND THE CHILD IN TIME

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
Possible Worlds for Fiction. A Reconstructive Approach, With a Practical Outlook into Ian McEwan’s Atonement, On Chesil Beach and The Child in Time. The present paper aims at presenting how the possible world framework can function for fictional worlds.
Adriana Diana URIAN
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Expression-Meaning and Vagueness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Brian Loar attempted to provide the Gricean program of intention-based semantics with an account of expression-meaning. But the theory he presented, like virtually every other foundational semantic or meta-semantical theory, was an idealization that ...
Schiffer, Stephen
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New-evangelization discourse in ELF immigration encounters: a case study

open access: yesLingue e Linguaggi, 2015
- This paper investigates how the 'New Evangelization' process in the Roman Catholic Church is enacted through ELF by the Italian clergy offering spiritual and practical assistance to non-western immigrants newly-arrived in Italy.
Maria Grazia Guido
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An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Many geographic terms, such as “river” and “lake”, are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is often vaguely carved out of a continuously varying observable domain.
Bennett, B., Mallenby, D., Third, A.
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Language and political reality: George Orwell reconsidered

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2015
The domain of reference of political discourse is not autonomous from language; this domain is a construct generated by the discourse itself. Such an approach to the relation between language and political reality was expressed in George Orwell’s novel ...
Suren Zolyan
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