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On the expression of mistaken beliefs in Australian languages

Linguistic Typology
This paper explores the expression of mistaken beliefs – as in for example the boy mistakenly believes that the turtle is dead (whereas in fact it is alive) – in the Indigenous languages of Australia. It is shown that some mode of expressing this meaning
McGregor William B.
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Contemporary prolepsis in digital rhetoric: the roles and functions of proleptic cues

Res Rhetorica
This article explores the adaptation of Gérard Genette's concept of narrative prolepsis in the realm of social media as the proleptic technique, demonstrating its effectiveness as a tool for anticipatory rhetoric in digital communication.
Alina Landowska, Andrea Rocci, Marcin Koszowy   +2 more
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Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
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The ultimate forgery: A semiotic deconstruction of large language models as engines of simulated selfhood

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Information science rests on a compact: its mediating signs maintain a traceable relation to what they describe. Large language models (LLMs) break it architecturally, generating discourse that is statistically plausible yet epistemically ungrounded, while standard metrics (precision, recall, relevance) cannot detect the rupture.
Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman
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Semiotics in media culture [PDF]

, 2019
Lazebna, N. Semiotics in media culture / N. Lazebna // Тиждень науки-2019. Гуманітарний факультет. Тези доповідей науково-практичної конференції, Запоріжжя, 15-19 квітня 2019 р. / Редкол. : В. В. Наумик (відпов. ред.) Електрон. дані.
Lazebna, Nataliya, Лазебна, Наталія Валеріївна   +1 more
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What do the colours of the MET Gala reveal about Western situation? A semiotic inquiry

Area
How can we understand which are the values circulating in a semiosphere —a topological space where meaning circulate linked to a specific culture— by looking at the colours?
Luca Losardo
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Semiotics, anthropology and the analysability of culture

Sign Systems Studies, 2006
For each culture-studying discipline, the problem of culture’s analysability stems from disciplinary identity. One half of analysability consists of the culture's attitude and the ability of the discipline's methods of description and analysis to render ...
Peeter Torop
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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The semiotics of printed instructions (graphic signa) [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis sets out to describe sign systems for communication using Axiomatic Functionalism as its theoretical framework. In doing so, the thesis also provides an important test to the claim of Axiomatic Functionalism that by using its premisses ...
Toumajian, Trak-Sarkis
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Semiotika dalam Bidang Manajemen Pemasaran

J-MKLI (Jurnal Manajemen dan Kearifan Lokal Indonesia), 2017
Semiotics is the science which studies signs in human life because human has the ability to give meaning to various social, cultural, and natural phenomenon. Since sign is a part of human culture, semiotics can be used to study human life.
Rini Astuti
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