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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Givenness"”.
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Givenness, focus, and prosody
… of focus and the inseparable phenomenon of givenness. As Schwarzschild (1999) has proposed, a proper understanding of givenness eliminates the need for a separate concept of focus, which is notoriously hard to define, either semantically, syntactically, or phonologically. I propose a …
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The Syntax of givenness
… The economy condition interacts with the way givenness is interpreted. I introduce a recursive operator that adds a presupposition to given elements. The distribution of the operator is regulated by the Maximize presupposition maxim of Heim (1991). The reference set for purposes of this …
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Discourse-givenness of noun phrases : theoretical and computational models
This thesis gives formal definitions of discourse-givenness, coreference and reference, and reports on experiments with computational models of discourse-givenness of noun phrases for English and German. Definitions are based on Bach's (1987) work on reference, Kibble and van Deemter's (2000) work …
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Feeling real in fiction : a study of the phenomenological mimesis of givenness in the novel.
… especially on the phenomenological mimesis of givenness. Novels give themselves, I argue, in ways that mimetically resemble the phenomenological givenness of the world in our daily lives, and coming to understand how different novels evoke this phenomenological mimesis can help us to better …
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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
… minds can be understood in terms or referential givenness. The common view of givenness is that it constitutes a one-dimensional scale or continuum of cognitive prominence. In opposition to this view, the present thesis assumes that givenness is partly composed of the dynamic referential features …
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‘D’un usage de la donation en théologie’: the question of revelation through the prism of givenness in the phenomenological work of Jean-Luc Marion
… and implications of a phenomenology of givenness. ‘D’un usage de la donation en théologie (on the use of givenness in theology)’ (Jean-Luc Marion, De surcroît (Paris: ‘Quadrige’ PUF, 2010), p. 32) suggests at least that phenomenology, when it is guided by givenness, does not subsist on …
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Referring expressions in Chinese and English discourse
… based on Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's (1993) Givenness Hierarchy, and compares the discourse use of Chinese referring expressions with those of English. The Givenness Hierarchy is given below: THE GIVENNESS HIERARCHY: in uniquely type focus > activated > familiar > identifiable >referential> …
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Max Scheler's Critical Theory: The Idea of Critical Phenomenology
… of the way in which phenomenological givenness is incommensurable with, and at best only symbolized by, conceptual articulation. An awareness of the tension between logos (concept) and phenomenon (intuition) offers an opportunity for the phenomenologist to critique the substitution of …
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Prosodic prominence in English
… to the binary given-new distinction of lexical givenness, and (2) in minimally contextualized utterances such as question-answer prompts or excerpts from a corpus. The assignment of prominence, however, can vary in relation to referential meaning as well as lexical meaning of a word in natural, …
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Affirmation and reaction: Towards a critical biosemiotic sociology
… social constructivism with the assumption or “givenness” of external reality. The works being drawn upon are predominately associated with phenomenological sociology, systems theory, and semiotics but additional works from philosophy and political science are considered. The result of this …
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Then They Understood: A Narrative-Critical Analysis of Matthew 16:12 and 17:13
… the concursion of human reception and divine givenness.
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
… forms.</p> <p>This paper incorporates the Givenness Hierarchy, as proposed by Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski (1993) and Relevance Theory (Wilson & Sperber 2004) to describe Udi linguistic reference forms. I will examine these forms according to Gundel, Hedberg and Zacharski's hierarchy as a …
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Knowledge of Nature, Knowledge of God: Eriugena, Theophanies, and the Mediations of Place
… for rooting theological epistemology in the givenness of nature and the situatedness of the knower. It also argues that perceiving creation as theophanous requires an act of contemplative attunement to place, one which is facilitated by the conformation between our minds and the places we …
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For the First Time - A Phenomenology of Virginity
… Calling on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of givenness, I argue that virginity qualifies as a saturated phenomenon, exceeding or overflowing intuition and signification in its paradoxical phenomenality. As a study in saturated phenomena my work pushes the limits of phenomenology by endorsing …
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Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation
… were conducted to investigate the impact of givenness, topic status and the type of referring expression on word order in the spontaneous speech of two- to four-year-olds and the child-directed speech produced by their mothers. The positioning of the direct object in ditransitive sentences …
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The Appearance of the Other Ego in Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology
… are given to me. Elucidating this difference in givenness is the goal of the dissertation, and I conclude Chapter I by clarifying some phenomenological topics that will be used throughout the rest of the analyses: the lived body, appresentation, and association. In Chapter II, I argue that the …
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A quantitative and qualitative analysis of competing motivations interacting in the placement of finite relative clauses in Hindi
… Although discourse factors such as definiteness, givenness, and restrictiveness do not have a strong effect in predicting relative clause configurations; the data show interactions between them and syntactic locality and grammatical weight. Furthermore, the Principle of Minimize Domains (Hawkins …
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Der Einfluss der Informationsstruktur auf das Verständnis von Aktiv- und Passivsätzen im ungestörten Spracherwerb
Kinder erwerben Passivstrukturen später als die meisten anderen syntaktischen Strukturen. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob dies auf informationsstrukturelle Faktoren zurückzuführen sein könnte. Probleme beim Erwerb von Passivsätzen wurden in vorhergehenden Studien unter …
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Communication Ethics: Ellul's Complexity of Form
<p>This project aims to enlarge understanding of Ellul’s dilemma of the ethical Christian communicator through a hermeneutic exploration of his intentionally un-paradigmatic treatment of technology as the determining factor in the formation of contemporary structural realities, a claim central to …
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Theology of Arcavatara and the Eucharist: A Comparative Study
<p>The diversity in the world today is undeniable and quite imposing. The claim to uniqueness and universality of faith in each religious system cannot be sustained without factoring the implications and impacts of this claim on the well-being of humanity and reality hermeneutics. The postmodern …