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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Linguistic interpretation"”.
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"We Only Have Words Against/ POWER SUPERPOWER": Literary Politics and the Subversion of Imperialism in Dos Passos' U.S.A.
… effects of colonial mimicry and exploiting a linguistic interpretation of mimicry through language's iterability, Dos Passos destabilizes imperialistically motivated fictions that oppress America's majority. Therefore, U.S.A. empowers marginalized Americans through recognition, as the trilogy …
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Modularity and locality in interpretation
… needed for a descriptively adequate theory of linguistic interpretation, (2) That presupposition accommodation is made with respect to a set of grammatically defined candidates, (3) That the set of accommodation candidates is derived from the same linguistic objects that are used to derive …
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The Cultural Broker: Babette Deutsch and Transatlantic Modernism
… within the frameworks of cultural mediation and linguistic interpretation, this research elucidates her efforts to challenge nationalist and instrumentalist assumptions in literature.The project establishes a theoretical foundation for analyzing Deutsch’s work, providing detailed analyses of her …
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The stories we sell: A narrative analysis of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising\r\n
… careful and comparative reading, rigorous linguistic interpretation, philosophical investigation, and narrative analysis. By bringing these scholastic approaches to bear on the issue of DTC advertising, this project offers a novel perspective from which to consider issues in health policy, …
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Exploring the use of qualitative social psychology in political science : discursive themes of an 18-24 cohort shaping their propensity to vote
… methods were ill-equipped to accommodate a linguistic interpretation of events. This thesis does not necessarily aim to supplant existing methodologies rather it asks how qualitative social psychology could compliment and facilitate existing methodological approaches. Qualitative social …
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Knowing and Expressing Ourselves
… reasoning, complex group action, and linguistic interpretation. Next, I argue that, even though privileged and peculiar self-knowledge does not explain the authority of our self-ascriptions, it is importantly related to our (Neo-Expressively understood) authority. In Chapter Five I …
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Semantic Decomposition By Covering
This thesis describes the implementation of a covering algorithm for semantic decomposition of sentences of technical patents. This research complements the ASPIN project that has a long term goal of providing an automated system for digital system synthesis from patents. In order to develop a …