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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Ordinary language"”.
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The Child's Emotionality: A Naturalistic Investigation
… relatives, friends, and strangers, using the ordinary language of their everyday life-world. This approach was based on the premise that the embeddedness of children in their own social-emotional, cultural-historical world necessitates that they be studied in context, and that their emotions, …
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Translation and interpreting as instruments of language planning in South Africa : focus on court interpreting
… Apart from English and Afrikaans, ten other languages, including South African Sign Language, have acquired official status. This linguistic dispensation should allow every citizen access to fair justice and a fuller participation in the democratisation process at all levels. It is obvious …
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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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Wittgenstein and the Grammar of Physics: A Study of Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1929-1930 Manuscripts and the Roots of His Later Philosophy
… thought he could replace the "logically perfect language" of the TLP with a "phenomenological language" in which experiential propositions about various "spaces" (e.g., "visual space") would form systems. The system described by a phenomenological language would be independent of the one …
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Revisiting Babel : sport and poetry
… umbrella of semiotic through the resources of ordinary language supplemented by three specialised kinds of language - sport as a language, mythology as a language, and poetry as a language. This work, as a hermeneutic of sport as poetry, grapples with the question of how to understand and …
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Carrollian language arts & rhetoric: Dodgson's quest for order & meaning, with a purpose
Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of …
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Towards the poetic
… to poetry, or rather the poetic let us look at language for a time. In ordinary language we use naming to make the world understandable and precise. We can begin to communicate reality through this naming. Thus language anchors our existence and is tied to the things by this act of naming. …
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Building representations from natural language
… from descriptions embedded in natural language. For example, in the sentence 'The girl walked to the table', my system produces a description of movement along a path (the girl moves on a path to the table), instantiating a general purpose trajectory representation that models movement …
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Interactions with context
… a compositional probabilistic semantics for the language of subjective uncertainty, including epistemic adjectives scoped under quantifiers. I argue that we should distinguish sharply between the effects that epistemically hedged statements have on conversational context, and the effects that …
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Constraining credences
… own previous opinions. In Chapter 1, I discuss ordinary language judgments about sequences of counterfactuals, and then discuss intuitions about norms governing our credence in counterfactuals. I argue that in both cases, a good theory of our judgments calls for a static semantics on which …
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
… his distinctive contribution as a theorist of language and literature.</p> <p>Most of the substantial studies of Burke that we have, like William Rueckert’s excellent book, <em>Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations</em>, are intrinsic in method. They explain Burke’s system from within, …
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Between God and Man: Community's Place in Virtue, Practical Reason, and Transcendent Good
… community and the role suggested by our ordinary language which 'good' must play to account for the diversity of its predications and suggested instantiations. From this a deeply metaphysical account is developed of ordinary goods as, in a sense, parasitic on a transcendent and infinite …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… studies, actor-network theory). Inspired by ordinary language philosophy, it analyzes the relationship of these posthuman pictures of the self to what Stanley Cavell, following Ludwig Wittgenstein, calls skepticism: the desire, both natural and unnatural, to deny and transcend the human and …
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Wittgenstein and Austin on ‘What is in Common’: A Neglected Perspective?
… say something which we would not say in ordinary language, or when philosophers violate its rules. According to this reading, Austin and Wittgenstein show philosophers that this is a source of traditional philosophical troubles. I argue for a different reading. My claim is that Austin and …
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Revisiting Habermas's colonisation thesis: towards a communicative transformation of the theory of reification
… form such that the semantic content of ordinary language is distorted. This narrows the space for the critical testing of validity claims from within the structure of communication itself to a capitalistic register. The theory of relinguistification then constitutes a critical theory of …
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Central and Secondary Struggles in Social Interventions: The Impact of Group Relations Learning on Real Life Practices
… expressed psychoanalytic concepts through ordinary language so that people unfamiliar with psychoanalysis could understand their meaning. The participants used tacit knowledge to activate appropriate modes of communication dependent upon context, but could not externalize this by turning …
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Wittgenstein and irreducible uncertainty: therapeutic implications for education of a non-local model of mind
… theory, but by acknowledging the limits of our ordinary language in talking about mental phenomena which cannot be observed directly. While the uncertainty of physical description can be reduced by careful observation and measurement, the uncertainty of psychological description can not be …
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Listening to Language in Gadamer's Hermeneutics
… Gadamer's idea and practice of listening to language in order to understand the relationship between a constitutive theory of language and a life of wisdom. As Gadamer's texts reveal, the hermeneutic practice of listening to language is a reflective engagement of language that is …
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Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
… and limits of creaturely sociality. Drawing on ordinary language philosophy, democratic theory, and grassroots democratic organizing, I propose a form of "agonistic community" centered on practices of conflict negotiation in coming to shared judgment and action. Finally, I conclude the …
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Conceptualising Restorative Justice within Transitional Justice Framework
… justice is not concerned with the rules of ordinary language usage a conceptual analysis is not possible. What is possible is to follow a route of enquiry that explores the different conceptions of restorative justice reflected in each body of work. These conceptions are discussed against …
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