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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Explicit meaning"”.
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Learning flexible concepts from examples: Employing the ideas of two-tiered concept representation
… Base Concept Representation (BCR), contains an explicit description of core concept properties, and the second tier, called the Inferential Concept Interpretation (ICI), defines allowable modifications of the explicit meaning and its dependence on the context of discourse.
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Captive Audiences: Sound and the Senses in Civil War Prisons
… the world through their senses, they rarely give explicit attention to nonvisual senses such as hearing and smell. This thesis takes nonvisual senses seriously. Unlike vision, hearing cannot be turned off, making sound and the auditory world inseparable from experience. In recent years sensory …
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An Evaluation of Grades 10 and 11 English First Additional Language Learners’ Interpretation of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in Cartoons: A Case Study of the Sibasa Circuit, Limpopo Province
… challenges that affect their ways of attaching meaning to visual texts (cartoons). The ability to make meaningful connections, plausible interpretations, and inferences seems to be limited. These include a limited ability to infer covert and implicit meanings. Furthermore, learners have …
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A Study on multimodal affordances and the interpretative perspectives of level 300 Media Studies Students
… as a visual semiotic element; inferential meaning given to the affordances of space and position as elements of spatial semiotic design. The study also evaluated respondents’ interpretations of literary devices and their narrative effect on a given multimodal text. . The study established …
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Patient-Centeredness In Pharmacist Practice: Filling A Foundation For What Counts To Patients
… is ambiguity and divergent thinking about the explicit meaning of the ‘Patient-Centeredness’ (PC) theoretical construct that informs PCC. Contemporary PC research has focused on identifying the commonalities of PC conceptualizations across healthcare populations (e.g., age, disease), settings …
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Essays in political economy
… the U.S. legislators' ideal points in multiple meaningful dimensions. The first chapter presents a formal political competition model with differentiated candidates. In this model, the government expenditure must be financed through a proportional income tax, candidates in an electoral …