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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"conventional language"”.
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A language independent debugger semantics based debugging in K
This works presents the K debugger - a language independent program debugger. The debugger is a part of the suite of tools that form the K framework. Conventional language dependent debuggers rely on an ad-hoc model of the underlying programming semantics, and may thus be incapable, or inaccurate …
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CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR GENERATORS IN ICON
… one form or another in a number of programming languages. The use of generators has been limited by a lack of understanding of their operation. Control structures for generating expressions are usually patterned after the control structures found in conventional language designs. A notation for …
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Do Academic Characteristics Predict Chinese Private University Students’ Success in English Language Testing?
<p>Conventional language learning theory, which holds that learning outcomes are solely associated with learners’ competencies, has begun to be disputed in the dynamic learning environment. This study used English learners’ academic characteristics from the 2014 cohort in a private university in …
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Advancing Verbal Communication Skills Through Transcript-Based Feedback : Designing an AI-Assisted Language Learning Application, “Stepping Stones, ” to Support ESL Students in Academic and Professional Contexts
… challenges faced by English as a Second Language (ESL) learners from high-context language backgrounds, such as Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, in online academic and professional settings. Cultural norms around indirectness, shared context, and cautious self-expression often influence how …
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New Orientations: Touch in Women's Experimental Writing
… experimental writing facilitates an affective language of touch and sensation that resists and moves beyond societally gendered, racialised, and compulsory heterosexualised constructs of tactile relations. By doing so, this research gestures toward the queer nature of touch to exceed normative …
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The role of comprehension in metaphor processing
… distinction between literal and nonliteral language, suggests that literal and nonliteral language can be accounted for in one general language comprehension model. In place of these previous theories, this thesis posits a model of metaphor comprehension based on contextual and intentional …
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Time, Institutions, and Energy
… as evidenced by their frequent usage in conventional language. Institutions are the overarching social infrastructures, both tangible and intangible, that range from the prevailing culture to the types of government policy that influence how we think and act. This dissertation seeks to …
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"In a shattered language": a feminist poetics of trauma.
In a Shattered Language": A Feminist Poetics of Trauma, fuses theories of traumatic stress with studies of contemporary poetry and poetics. This project intervenes in debates over the ways trauma is experienced, remembered, and represented by positing poetry as an alternative form of discourse--one …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
… visual metaphors to express ideas which escape conventional language usage. The poet, according to Emerson, would have the ability to trace words back to their original associations with things, and thus reveal the true world of facts. His emphasis on seeing (in all aspects of that term) …
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Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature
… typically expressed in proverbs, asserting conventional beliefs and values: "the Latin rhetorical ideal of `good sense' and `sound judgment'" (Daniel Heller-Roazen). The third is a concept from Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, which posits a sensus communis as the ground of aesthetic …
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Choose Your Words: Refining What Counts as Mathematical Discourse in Students' Negotiation of Meaning for Rate of Change of Volume
… honors calculus students negotiate meaning and language for conceptually important ideas through mathematical discourse. Mathematical discourse has been recognized as an important topic by mathematics education researchers of various theoretical perspectives. This study is written from a …