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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"polysemy"”.
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An Organizational Approach to the Polysemy Problem in WordNet
Polysemy in WordNet corresponds to various kinds of linguistic phenomena that can be grouped into five classes. One of them is homonymy that refers to the cases, where the meanings of a term are unrelated, and three of the classes refer to the polysemy cases, where the meanings of a term are …
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Systematic Polysemy in Arabic: A Generative Lexicon-based Account
… study the (linguistic) phenomenon of systematic polysemy and examine its pervasiveness in Arabic (both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Jordanian Arabic (JA)). Systematic polysemy in this study is defined as the case where a lexeme has more than one distinct sense and the relationship between the …
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The Neural Representation of Polysemy: The Case of Dot-objects
Abstract and concrete concepts are generally considered fundamentally distinct categories. However, many concepts have both concrete and abstract senses, for instance "book" can refer to both a physical object (as in "a torn book") and the abstract content (as in "an interesting book"). How is the …
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Cinematic Palimpsests: Polysemy and In(ter)dependency in the Spectator Experience
<p><strong> </strong>The model of the cinematic palimpsest helps us to critically reevaluate<strong> </strong>formal aspects of<strong> </strong>film language, relationships between film texts, and the construction of cinematic meaning in conversation with the spectator. Originating in Medieval …
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Collocation and preposition sense: a phraseological approach to the cognition of polysemy
This study explores the relationship between the ‘sense’ of the prepositions over, into and through and the combined ‘form’ of their preceding and following nouns, using the hypothesis that the co-occurring nouns can predict different senses of the prepositions. It uses concepts drawn from both …
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
… prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized in the mind. This leads to a clearer understanding of the relationships between words. A study of …
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Zeki Müren, a prince from outer space : reading Turkey's gender-bending pop legend as a transmedia star
… affordances, these media together create a polysemy - multiple meanings that Müren's star image signifies - whose elements are often in tension with each other, while providing different entry points for different audiences. With the guidance of Richard Dyer's work on intertextuality and …
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Hybrid Words Representation for the classification of low quality text
… accurately. The way text is organized reflects polysemy, semantic and syntactical coupling relationships which are embedded in its contents. The effective capturing of such content relationships is thereby crucial for a better understanding of text representations. This is especially challenging …
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La variación lingüística: Propuesta de delimitación de variantes en el nivel léxico
… to the traditional concepts of synonymy and polysemy, has been one of the most interesting ones for linguistics recently. We believe, according to the revision we have carried out through lexicography and linguistics history, which had not been done up to now, that variation is just as …
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Political Satire and Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting or Both? The Case of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS)
… the show, TDS' primary text, promoted cognitive polysemy, a textual ambiguity which encouraged critical inquiry, and that TDS' audiences perceived it accordingly. As a result I analyzed, through a dual - encoding/decoding - analytical approach, whether TDS' comedic discourse educates and informs …
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The Relationship Between English Language Structure and Language Acquisition
… complexity of the English language especially polysemy, synonyms, idioms, and spelling and how challenging these issues could be for nonnative speakers and students to grasp. The review examines the history and development of the language, several key grammatical challenges and many of the …
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Soft Constraints on Mapping Form to Meaning in Lexical Acquisition
… the implications of the proposal for polysemy. This final experiment shows that children are likely to interpret an accoustically ambiguous stimulus as a known word only if the known word is related to the context in which they hear the word. Otherwise, children prefer a novel word …
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Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
… The strategic ambiguity of this ironic polysemy allows for statements to avoid criticism by being framed as mere jokes or having an ironic meaning opposed to the ostensible meaning. This denial of rhetorical agency often leads to rhetorical decay as defined by Holly Fulton-Babicke. This …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… vehicles for exploring both the practice of polysemy in popular texts as well as the ongoing evolution of popular bodily desires and fantasies within postwar American society and culture. Reading superhero comics as a body genre, this project offers a formally and visually driven analysis …
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Πνεῦμα in the Septuagint
… expressions. In chapter 5, observations on the polysemy and taxonomical relations of πνεῦμα are offered based on a survey of the broader uses of πνεῦμα. In the concluding chapter, the distinct connotations that arise in LXX texts using ἄνεμος and πνεῦμα where the source texts had רוּחַ are …
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Concept Search: Semantics Enabled Information Retrieval
… be negatively affected by the problems of (i) polysemy, (ii) synonymy, (iii) complex concepts, and (iv) related concepts. Semantic IR is based on fetching document and query representations through a semantic analysis of their contents using natural language processing techniques and then …
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Commented translation of an excerpt from Hunayn Ibn Ishaq's epistle to his patron 'Ali ibn Yahya on the translations of Galen.
… of different types, namely interpretive (e.g. polysemy) and terminological (e.g. synonymy). In Section Two, we expound Hunayn's own method of research and views on translation. Finally, we summarize the main conclusions that we draw from the epistle, and from its translation. For the …
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'David as reader': 2 Samuel 12: 1-15 and the poetics of fatherhood
… in 2 Sam 1 leads to the conclusion that the polysemy of the Amalekite's utterances is turned against him. David as reader re-writes the Amalekite's utterances. This leads to a theoretical investigation of what it might mean to refer to a character as reader. The concept of mise en abyme …
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(De/Re)Constructing ChicanX/a/o Cinema: Liminality, Cultural Hyphenation, and Psychic Borderlands in <em>Real Women Have Curves</em> and <em>Mosquita y Mari</em>
… identity. In this hyphenation of identity, the polysemy of voices coincides to fuse contradictions— not in the way that “American” identity seeks to ignore difference within diverse groups but to emphasize the liminal status of a psychic Borderland that maintains the fluidity of identity as an …
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