Numerous Meanings

Author : Bert Bultinck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080456799

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Numerous Meanings by Bert Bultinck Pdf

Outlandish as it may seem to the uninitiated, the meaning of English cardinal numbers has been the object of many heated and fascinating debates. Notwithstanding the numerous important objections that have been formulated in the last three decades, the (neo-)Gricean, scalar account is still the standard semantic description of numerals. In this book, Bultinck writes the history of this implicature-driven approach and demonstrates that it suffers from methodological insecurity and postulates highly non-conventional meanings of numerals as their "literal meaning", while it confuses the level of lexical semantics with that of utterances and cannot deal with a large number of counter-examples. Relying on the results of an extensive corpus-based analysis, an alternative account of the meaning of English cardinals and the ways in which their interpretation is influenced by other linguistic elements is presented. As such, this analysis constitutes a prism that offers todays linguist an iridescent history of one of the most fascinating, if often misconstrued, topics in contemporary meaning research: the conversational implicatures.

Author : Philipp Buttmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Ancient Greek poetry
ISBN : MINN:31951002300392X

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Lexilogus, Or, A Critical Examination of the Meaning and Etymology of Numerous Greek Words and Passages by Philipp Buttmann Pdf

Author : Andrea Wang
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593111291

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The Many Meanings of Meilan by Andrea Wang Pdf

“The little girl I was would have been thrilled to encounter Meilan... having found a character who embraces the complexity of being both Chinese and American, I would have been able to echo her words: 'I am not alone.'” —New York Times Book Review by Jean Kwok A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant debut. Meilan Hua's world is made up of a few key ingredients: her family's beloved matriarch, Nai Nai; the bakery her parents, aunts, and uncles own and run in Boston's Chinatown; and her favorite Chinese fairy tales. After Nai Nai passes, the family has a falling-out that sends Meilan, her parents, and her grieving grandfather on the road in search of a new home. They take a winding path across the country before landing in Redbud, Ohio. Everything in Redbud is the opposite of Chinatown, and Meilan's not quite sure who she is--being renamed at school only makes it worse. She decides she is many Meilans, each inspired by a different Chinese character with the same pronunciation as her name. Sometimes she is Mist, cooling and invisible; other times, she's Basket, carrying her parents' hopes and dreams and her guilt of not living up to them; and occasionally she is bright Blue, the way she feels around her new friend Logan. Meilan keeps her facets separate until an injustice at school shows her the power of bringing her many selves together. The Many Meanings of Meilan, written in stunning prose by Newbery Honor-winning author Andrea Wang, is an exploration of all the things it's possible to grieve, the injustices large and small that make us rage, and the peace that's unlocked when we learn to find home within ourselves.

Author : Alexei A. Sharov,George E. Mikhailovsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119865643

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Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe by Alexei A. Sharov,George E. Mikhailovsky Pdf

Pathways to the Origin and Evolition of Meanings in the Universe The book explains why meaning is a part of the universe populated by life, and how organisms generate meanings and then use them for creative transformation of the environment and themselves. This book focuses on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biology, semiotics, philosophy, ethology, information theory, and the theory of evolution. Such a broad approach provides a rich context for the study of organisms and other semiotic agents in their environments. This methodology can be applied to robotics and artificial intelligence for developing robust, adaptable learning devices. In this book, leading interdisciplinary scholars reveal their vision on how to integrate natural sciences with semiotics, a theory of meaning-making and signification. Developments in biology indicate that the capacity to create and understand signs is not limited to humans or vertebrate animals, but exists in all living organisms - the fact that inspired the integration of biology and semiotics into biosemiotics. The authors discuss the nature of semiotic agents (organisms and other autonomous goal-directed units), meaning, signs, information, memory, evolution, and consciousness. Also discussed are issues including the origin of life, potential meaning and its actualization, top-down causality in physics and biology, capacity of organisms to encode their functions, the strategy of organisms to combine homeostasis with direct adaptation to new life-cycle phases or new environments, multi-level memory systems, increase of freedom via enabling constraints, creative modeling in evolution and learning, communication in animals and humans, the origin and function of language, and the distribution and transfer of life in space. This is the first book on biosemiotics in its global conceptual and spatial scope. Biosemiotics is presented using the language of natural sciences, which supports the scientific grounding of semiotic terms. Finally, the cosmic dimension of life and meaning-making leads to a reconsideration of ethical principles and ecological mentality here on earth and in space exploration. Audience Theoretical biologists, ethologists, astrobiologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, philosophers, phenomenologists, semioticians, biosemioticians, molecular biologists, linguists, system scientists and engineers.

Author : Fraih Solaiman
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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100 Common English Words That Have Different Meanings by Fraih Solaiman Pdf

This book is dealing with common English words that have different meanings. A certain word may have a certain meaning in a specific context,then the same word has a different meaning in another context.

Author : Dr. M. Kanika Priya
Publisher : JEC PUBLICATION
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789357495295

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PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 1 by Dr. M. Kanika Priya Pdf

This Conference Proceedings of the National Seminar entitled “Multidisciplinary Research and Practice” compiled by Dr. M. Kanika Priya records various research papers written by eminent scholars, professors and students. The articles range from English literature to Tamil literature, Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Education, Performing Arts, Information and Communication Technology, Engineering, Technology and Science, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Research, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Business, Management, Commerce and Accounting, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Primary and Secondary Education, Law, Science (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany), Agriculture and Computer Science. Researchers and faculty members from various disciplines have contributed their research papers. This book contains articles in Three languages, namely: English, Tamil and Hindi. As a editor Dr. M. Kanika Priya has taken up the tedious job of checking the validity and correctness of the research work in bringing out this conference proceedings in a beautiful manner. In its present shape and size, this anthology will, hopefully, find a place on the library shelves and enlighten the academics all round the world.

Author : Buttmann (Philipp)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RMS:RMS5LDP2000030217$$$F

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Lexilogus; Or a Critical Examination of the Meaning... by Buttmann (Philipp) Pdf

Author : Cynthia E. Milton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804751781

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The Many Meanings of Poverty by Cynthia E. Milton Pdf

The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.

Author : Hermann Varnhagen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : But
ISBN : OXFORD:N11272336

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An Inquiry Into the Origin and Different Meanings of the English Particle "but" by Hermann Varnhagen Pdf

Author : Mieke Verloo
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786155211393

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Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality by Mieke Verloo Pdf

This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and debates over gender equality are located. The contextual locations where these visions and debates take place include the European Union and member states such as Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Slovenia, Greece, and Spain. In all of these settings, the different meanings of gender equality are explored comparatively in relation to the issues of family policies, domestic violence, and gender inequality in politics, while specific national contexts discuss the issues of prostitution (Austria, Slovenia), migration (the Netherlands), homosexual rights (Spain), and antidiscrimination (Hungary). The multiple meanings of gender equality are studied through Critical Frame Analysis, a methodology that builds on social movement theory and that was refined further with elements of gender and political theory within the context of the MAGEEQ research project

Author : Herbert Charles O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015031031001

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A Guide to the English Language by Herbert Charles O'Neill Pdf

Author : John Austin,Robert Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Jurisprudence
ISBN : PSU:000004377689

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Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin,Robert Campbell Pdf

Author : Joseph Emerson Worcester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2060 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:$C191471

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Joseph Emerson Worcester Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCAL:C3470729

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001922987I

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Athenaeum by James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry Pdf