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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Language-game"”.
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A Language-Game Justification for Narrative in Historical Explanation
… explanations by appealing to the notion of language games as used by Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as the narrative and paradigm models of Arthur Danto and Thomas Kuhn for explaining historical events.
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The language game of role-play: an analysis of assessed consultations between third year medical students and Simulated Patients (SPs)
… seem not only to follow the rules of the ‘language game of medicine’ but also the rules of the ‘language game of education’, which suggests that the language of simulated consultations should be seen as a different genre, rather than a mirror of reality. These findings raise questions about …
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Language games and computer-aided composition
Wittgenstein's theory of the "language game" looks at the specific context in which language finds meaning. This theory significantly influences composition theory and practice within the problematic context of the computer-aided classroom, a much more complex and fast-paced environment than the …
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The concept of revelation
… has been to use Wittgenstein's concepts of a language game and a form of life to demonstrate that it makes sense to say that, in Christ, a knowledge of God is possible. I have argued that certain fundamental propositions, implicit within the Kerygma of the Apostolic community, provide the …
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Chinese Scrabble : a web-based speech-enabled game for Chinese vocabulary building
The subject of this thesis is a web-based language game Chinese Scrabble, whose main objective is to help students of Chinese to practice speaking, to learn and review vocabulary both in pinyin and in Chinese characters. The game was intended to be very flexible and customizable in order to …
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Alcoholics Polyphonous: Wittgenstein's Linguistic Philosophy in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
… of the later Wittgenstein's famous Private Language Argument, I analyze the way Wallace adapts the idea of the Private Language User (PLU) as an archetype for his novel's characters. The third chapter details Wallace's use of the Wittgensteinian notion of the "language-game" as an antidote …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
… Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language The purpose of this study is to show transitions between verbal and visual meaning in ordinary language, based on philosophical concepts and conceptual artworks. It offers models for artistic research and collaboration in arts and science. …
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TaleBlazer : a platform for creating multiplayer location based games
… that allows users to create location-based games for their mobile device. Using a block-based programming language, game designers can control the behavior of agents that interact with the game players as they walk around in the world with their GPS enabled device. This thesis describes the …
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The Grammar of Obligation: An Investigation of the Views of Four British Moralists
This thesis is about the logic of moral language; in particular, the grammar of the term 'ought'. My argument owes much to the work of Wittgenstein, and in the introductory chapter I discuss certain of his ideas which are relevant to the thesis as a whole (e.g., the notion of a language-game and …
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Wittgenstein's tractatus and the limits of language
… is closely bound up with his conception of language. In fact, one could say that the status he designates to philosophy is a logical outcome of his conception of language. In both the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein attempts to articulate a …
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Translation after Wittgenstein
… later work, because it deals with the nature of language and meaning, is potentially of great significance: the story that Wittgenstein tells can change the field. It can rid translators of pictures of translation that are detrimental to literary translation and can also offer tools that will …
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Artificial Language Evolution on a Dynamical Interaction Network
… network on the distributed learning of a common language. We derive a new algorithm for generating realistic complex networks, called Noisy Preferential Attachment (NPA). This is a modification of preferential attachment that unifies it with the quasispecies model of molecular evolution. The …
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Logical Legitimist Treatise: On Policing and Protests in Hong Kong
… Kong through a framework called the legitimist game. Legitimacy describes power relations that are recognised as rightful. It has become an established concept in criminology, with a growing body of literature within the last two decades. However, the literature has focused almost entirely on …
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Leadership through the perspectives of high-ranking leader for TVET organisational excellence in Malaysia
… 1 explicates leaders define leadership as a language game where there is no agreeableness on the definition while leaders define TVET education as both mental and physical activity. Research question 2 explicates 2 forms of leadership characteristic for TVET high-ranking leaders consists of …
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Feeding identity: The critical hermeneutics of contemporary Kleinian psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy from the perspective of a novice
… hermeneutics. As a critical hermeneutic "language game" CKPP facilitates the (re)formation of the subject by discursively subjecting the client/patient to a continuous displacement of longing in the face of the Other's difference. In Habermas' and Kögler's terms, it is a productive …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… movement between the homely and unhomely in language, transcendence, and time. Chapter One interprets Monster as a mind-game film, discussing how its mind-game, qua language game, explores homecoming in language. Moving between different perspectives, the film invites us to navigate extreme …
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Authorities and naturalness beyond neo-pragmatism and deconstructionism. Optimization of economic distribution and well-being as a means of going beyond dialectical failures
… a definition of “credit” which coincides with a language game focused on a maximization and equalization of reciprocity and mutual expectations. I relegate the forms of credit granting which respond to others logics under the category of “arbitrary”. I choose the concept of credit because it is …
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Nature of talk and interaction in the Singapore history classroom
… 1975). The main focus of the research is on the language used in the history classroom, particularly during critical episodes when the teachers and students appeared to be engaged in the process of historical thinking. This research is particularly concerned with historical thought embedded in …
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Sickness experience and language : aspects of Tongan and Western accounting
… Wittgenstein’s concept of ‘rule-usage’ in the ‘language game’ of sickness. This form of analysis indicated certain individual and public relevances which are grounded upon the Tongan way of life. Thus speakers’ accounts are analyzed in terms of what sickness talk ‘shows’ as well as what it …