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Showing 1 to 20 of 8862 for “"Meaning"”.
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Categories of meaning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Meaning and metatheory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Propositions and meaning : a study of denotationist theories of logical meaning
… that propositions(argument components or logical meanings) are in some sense "objects" denoted by sentences. The author confines his at tent ion to theories developed during a revolutionary period in the history of logic - between the publication of Mill's A System of logic and that of Principia …
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Propositions and meaning : a study of denotationist theories of logical meaning
… that propositions(argument components or logical meanings) are in some sense "objects" denoted by sentences. The author confines his at tent ion to theories developed during a revolutionary period in the history of logic - between the publication of Mill's A System of logic and that of Principia …
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Finding and Losing Meaning: Understanding Change in Employee Meaning of Work
Meaning of work is an important topic in organizational studies because how people relate to their work can influence workplace attitudes and behaviors. However, despite a long history of research on meaning of work, an agreed-upon theoretical framework of meaning is yet to emerge. Further, while …
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Intention Perception and Meaning
… the complex relationship between intention and meaning. Study 1 examines how threats to meaning impact subsequent perceptions of intentionality. Following threats to meaning, we predict that an intentionality ascription bias will emerge as an attempt to restore meaning a la the meaning …
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A Hint of Meaning
A Hint of Meaning contains a scholarly preface, "Language, Experimentation, and Craft: Creating a Vivid, Continuous Fictional Dream," that discusses the ambiguities of language and how they relate to different aspects of the craft of writing. Six original short stories follow the preface. "Musical …
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Mind, meaning and miscommunication
… provide a clearer understanding of the nature of meaning. My focus is on how meaning relates to mind. I am therefore concerned primarily with utterances as linguistic units in themselves, and only secondarily with propositions and speech acts formed from utterances. I approach the task on the …
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'Equivocity' and Metaphorical Meaning
This inquiry into questions of linguistic meaning begins by surveying general problems clustered around the phenomenon known as metaphor. Theories of metaphor are classified as Authoritarian, Anarchist or Middle Ground theories, and these theoretical groupings are examined in terms of their …
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Learning meaning in Genesis
… to turn English sentences into a variety of more meaningful semantic representations. I reproduced the functionality of these rules by training the existing rule-learning program UNDERSTAND with 43 human-readable examples of English sentences and corresponding semantic representations, resulting …
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The rediscovery of meaning
… be a memorial to the people of Israel forever. Meaning is revealed in the inmost place of a man. Once that lamp of understanding is lit, it will never be extinguished. It is only our awareness of meaning that dims and fades, lost in a welter of imposing facts. The experience of built form can …
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Jazzvertising: Music, Marketing, and Meaning
… to unraveling the complicated web of cultural meanings and values that attend to jazz in the 21st century. Advertising is a critically important and profoundly complex medium for the mass dissemination of music and musical meaning. Advertisers and marketers therefore offer crucial perspectives …
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THE LANDSCAPE OF AFFECTIVE MEANING
… content’ be character- ized in a theory of meaning? Even though research on expressive meaning has produced models that integrate the affective aspects of swear words in a compositional framework, there is extensive evidence that swear words can- not be assigned a single or stable affective …
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Meaning in D.B.Z. Ntuli's poetry
… this literary artist has used to relay meaning to his readers. An attempt was made to assess and evaluate his poetry in order to examine more closely the degree of Ntuli's success in the delivery of meaning to his audience. It is hoped that in the final analysis, this study will spell …
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Gambling addiction and life meaning
… in studying alcohol and drug abuse, is a lack of meaning in the addict's life. However, a causal link between life meaning and gambling addiction has not yet been examined. This study used a sample of 355 normal people and compared scores on the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS), the Purpose in …
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