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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Neologisms"”.
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A Morphological Study of French Neologisms
… Part of this evolution is the appearance of neologisms and the development of new meanings for existing words. Studying these neologisms from a morphological approach can allow for a deeper understanding of where French is coming from, as well as where it is headed. This study focuses …
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Neologisms in LXX Jeremiah: Word Formation within the History of Greek
Neologisms remain an important topic within Septuagint scholarship. Despite their significance, very few studies devoted to the topic of “new words” have materialized. This dissertation examines the identification and interpretation of putative neologisms, Greek words allegedly coined by the …
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Strategy and procedures for translating proper nouns and neologisms in Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Small Gods into Afrikaans
… translator when translating the proper nouns and neologisms in a fantasy novel. The translator should not move towards and stand next to the reader to create a target text that is unrecognisable compared to the source text. At the same time, the translator cannot remain next to the writer and thus …
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Communication Disorder and Language Production in Schizophrenia
… deficits; and (3) word-approximations and neologisms would be related to editing deficits. Subjects were 43 hospitalized schizophrenic, manic, or schizoaffective-manic patients. All subjects completed an interview used to rate communication disorder and tasks designed to measure editing, …
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Lessico nuovo in lingue di minoranza: ladino fassano e aranese a confronto.
… Technology (IT) as a semantic field rich in neologisms. In the first part I will examine two corpora: one, based upon the language as used in websites and databases and the other, taken from questionnaires carried out in elementary schools and middle schools. In the second part, I will …
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Neologism production in jargon aphasia
… connected speech is composed almost entirely of neologisms. Despite the general intelligibility of his speech, LT is able to produce discrete responses in picture naming tasks. Neologisms were investigated for their phonemic content. Non word responses maintained the normal English distribution …
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The merits of the human security paradigm : a materialist account of peasant insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa
… economic system. While the emergence of these neologisms of the critical security studies school represent a marked divergence from that of the traditional approach of understanding security threats, they remained mired in contestation due to their lack of theoretical parsimony.
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The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu
… of the most frequent methods of developing neologisms used by myself and my ahvn Mukdexan in our revitalization work together.
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A Pointillism Approach for Natural Language Processing of Social Media
… because of a current event, or they might be neologisms newly created to emphasize meaning or evade keyword filtering. Chinese social media is particularly challenging. The Chinese language poses challenges for natural language processing based on the unit of a word even for formal uses of the …
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Love and ecology as an integrative force for good and as resistance to the commodification of nature and planetary harms: Introducing Fluminism.
… of nature by market force. I defend the use of neologisms and introduce Spring Theory to help redefine human language as evolutionary and part of the flow.
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Gli anglicismi nella comunicazione politica su Twitter
… the Italian language. The second part focuses on neologisms, which play a rather significant role: more than 30% of English loans is represented by words that have not been included in the most recent Italian dictionaries (2014), proving how these terms can rapidly enter everyday language without …
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New speaker language and identity: Practices and perceptions around Breton as a regional language of France
… of Breton, involving in particular the use of neologisms based on existing Breton roots. This thesis interrogates this stereotypical divide by examining language used in the media, a context where new speakers are likely to be highly represented. The bulk of the analysis presented in this work …
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Islamophobia and the Politics of the Human in Contemporary German Mediascapes
… of Islamicate Culture.I tackle two recent neologisms coined in German right-wing populist discourse, specifically the compound nouns Kopftuchmädchen (headscarfgirl) and Messermann (knifeman), reading these as condensates of a disproportionally humanist imaginary that conjures the Muslim …
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The Roles of Language Models and Hierarchical Models in Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction
… pathologies of NMT such as hallucinations and neologisms. Other external symbolic models such as spell checkers and morphology databases help neural grammatical error correction. We also focus on language models that often do not play a role in vanilla end-to-end approaches and apply them in …
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Conquests of the Common Ground: Mansplaining and Under-Presupposing
… account of mansplaining. Of recent pop culture neologisms, 'mansplain,' used to call out men who give women unnecessary and unsolicited explanations, has surely been one of the most influential. The term has recently been subject to philosophical analysis, too, with an emphasis on the harms of …
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Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity for Real World Applications
… in which we show that 1) the generated neologisms are appealing and successful, and that 2) the sentences that we generate have many of the qualities of successful slogans used for advertisement and 3) they are effective mnemonic devices when used as memory aids for second language …
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We make fiction because we are fiction: authorities displaced in the novels of Russell Hoban
… language of Riddley Walker, and examine how the neologisms and futuristic orthography of the text contribute towards significant wordplay. I argue that Riddley's attempts to read his culture's past offer a critique of the contemporary reader's assumptions, both about her present and about reading …
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Un nuevo marco conceptual para el análisis electoral
… of every track of ambiguity, and for a set of neologisms that make possible several references impracticable before. Both questions, together with others, aspire to reach just one objective: the accuracy, thoroughness and rigour characteristic of every knowledge, wherever is possible to …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
My PhD thesis investigates the exploration of the self and the innovative poetical language in the works of the Ukrainian dissident poet and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus (1938-1985). Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his …