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Der Band enthalt 15 Beitrage in russischer und 4 Beitrage in polnischer Sprache. Thema des Sammelbandes sind spezifische Merkmale der phantastischen Literatur, ihre Motivik, ihre sprachlichen Besonderheiten, ihre Gattungsproblematik. Der Terminus Phantastik, der bisher selten im Mittelpunkt wissenschaftlicher Forschung gestanden hat, wird als eine besondere, nicht mimetische Erscheinungsart des Wortkunstwerkes behandelt. In den einzelnen Artikeln stehen ganz unterschiedliche Auspragungen von Ph...

This book introduces a theory, Naive Semantics (NS), a theory of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding. The basic assumption of NS is that knowing what a word means is not very different from knowing anything else, so that there is no difference in form of cognitive representation between lexical semantics and ency clopedic knowledge. NS represents word meanings as commonsense knowledge, and builds no special representation language (other than elements of first-order logic)....

From the point of view of non-classical logics, Heyting's implication is the smallest implication for which the deduction theorem holds. This book studies properties of logical systems having some of the classical connectives and implication in the neighbourhood of Heyt­ ing's implication. I have not included anything on entailment, al­ though it belongs to this neighbourhood, mainly because of the appearance of the Anderson-Belnap book on entailment. In the later chapters of this book, I have i...

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth. We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how meaning works, from monkey calls to...

Exam Board: WJEC Eduqas Level: GCSE 9-1 Subject: English Suitable for the 2022 exams Targeted practice questions covering the GCSE grade 9-1 curriculum This Collins WJEC Eduqas English Language & Literature GCSE 9-1 Workbook contains topic-based questions as well as a full practice paper and answers, with lots of realistic practice opportunities. With a workbook and pr...

Diese erste Arbeit uber den Sprachgebrauch der Ungarn in der Schweiz erarbeitet an konkreten Beispielen neue Ansatze im Bereich der Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung. Unter Einbezug von Netzwerkanalyse, Code-switching und Lehnwortforschung, Stil- oder Konversationsanalyse etc. ist es gelungen, den Sprachgebrauch und dessen Motivationen bei einer zwei- bzw. mehrsprachigen Minderheit detailliert, realitatsnah und exakt zu beschreiben und teils versteckten Zusammenhangen zwischen verschiedenen S...

"In the great English tradition of the lay specialist, Barfield, a lawyer, modernizes the Platonic dialogue format to focus on the philosophic problems of reality and ways of knowing.. This is the solvent mind at its best-distinguished exchanges giving provocative, open-ended results at every point. Highly recommended. of permanent value." -Choice: Books for College Libraries Owen Barfield, who died in 1997 shortly after entering his hundredth year, was one of the seminal minds of the twentieth...

In How Language Informs Mathematics Dirk Damsma shows how Hegel's and Marx's systematic dialectical analysis of mathematical and economic language helps us understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. More importantly, Damsma shows how knowledge of the latter can inform model assumptions and help improve models. His book provides a blueprint for an approach to economic model building that does away with arbitrarily chosen assumptions and is sensitive to the insti...

La connaissance du monde s'exprime en propositions, que celles-ci soient considerees, selon les theories, comme objets ou comme moyens de la science. Le probleme de la relation entre ces entites linguistiques et les representations mental (intellections, intentions, concepts...) a une longue histoire qui remonte au traite De l'interpretation d'Aristote et aux commentaires de Boece. Apres Guillaume d'Ockham, en effet, l'idee de langage mental est certes une hypothese qui a acquis force et consist...

Gefuhle. Gedanken. Emotionen. Dem, was die Sprache zu beschreiben vermag, wird oft erst durch eine Bewegung der Hand Nachdruck verliehen. Dabei unterliegt auch die Gestik sprachlicher und kultureller Variation. Was geschieht, wenn wir den sprachlichen Code wechseln? Verbleibt uns die Gestik als identitares Merkmal oder passen sich auch unsere Hande der neuen Sprache an? Ausgehend von authentischen Interviews mit spanisch-, franzoesisch- und russischsprachigen Deutschlernern wird empirisch die Fr...

In recent years, 'semantical partiality' has emerged as an important concept in philosophical logic as well as in the study of natural language semantics. Despite the many applications, however, a number of mathematically intriguing questions associated with this concept have received only very limited attention. Partiality, Truth, and Persistence is a study in spatial model theory, the theory of partially defined models. First, with the introduction of truth value gaps in semantics, there are m...

Cognitive linguists believe that metaphors are prevalent in human thought, while metaphorical structures are reflected at the linguistic level. Therefore, analysing extensive language data can aid in revealing the metaphorical mappings of embodied experience with the senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and temperature. This volume seeks to discover the similarities and differences between the metaphorical systems of the English and Chinese languages. Adopting a comparative view, th...