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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"semantic fields"”.
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Hårt arbete och sträng vila
… be explained by its primary meaning and the semantic qualities of the headword and to what extent can it be regarded as an unpredictable lexical convention? and 2) to what extent does the adverbial usage of an intensifier correspond to its usage as an adjective? In the first part of the …
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Synchronic analysis of combining forms in english /
… thesis is to analyse the CFs morphologically and semantically to shed light on their tendencies and features. The objectives to achieve the aim include exploring scientific literature on CFs, then classifying them based on previous research, identifying the semantic fields of CFs and measuring the …
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A corpus-driven discourse analysis of transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme ‘Aló Presidente’
… these effects, based upon a hypothesis that semantic fields are used more frequently in periods when they are topical, and therefore one can isolate instances which were produced at times of change. I use the Aló Presidente corpus to present a detailed description of three such semantic …
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A semantic network approach to second language vocabulary learning and its implementation in a computerized lexical database
This dissertation proposes a semantic network approach to second language vocabulary learning, and discusses its implementation in a computerized lexical database. A semantic network approach to vocabulary learning incorporates semantic fields theory and frame or schema theory into the …
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Disabled person's control, communication and entertainment aid: an investigation of the feasibility of using speech control and natural language understanding to control a manipulator and a software application and development environment
… affix transformations, and the incorporation of semantic information using a variety of techniques, such as semantic fields, the previously mentioned affix transforms, and object-oriented semantic trees. The software developed for the system is written in Borland Pascal on an IBM compatible P C , …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… contiguity: by way of revising the theory of semantic fields, it is suggested that metonymy is best understood as a shift within a semantic field, conceptualising the field itself as the result of regular collocations in ordinary usage. This proposition indicates why metonymy’s defamiliarising …
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Talking about self, God, and relationships : how first-year students use Christianese to construct identity at a faith-based university
… discussed. Regarding metaphors, I noted ten semantic fields of metaphors in the data, all of which related to relationships, and examined how participants used these metaphors to construct their identity of belonging to the community. This systematic investigation revealed that students …
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Ancient Childhood: Perspectives from Iraq and Syria in the Early Second Millennium BC
… setting. The thesis explores the terminology and semantic fields associated with children, and monitors diachronic and regional variation thereof, in order to reconstruct Old Babylonian “age” classification systems and to understand in which situations or contexts a differentiation between young …
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Representações sociais de bibliotecários: quando o antigo e o novo se confrontam
… process of change objectivation in articulated semantic fields and its anchorage in socially acceptable values and symbols to the belongings and reference groups are facilitated. These practices make possible the fundamental processes of construction and reconstruction of social representations …
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The Contested Relationship of Democracy and the Economy : Debates on Economic and Industrial Democracy in Finland and Sweden, 1960s–1990s
… of thought.’ Concepts are analyzed as parts of semantic fields or ideational constellations, where their meaning, reference and valuation are shaped in relation to other concepts and beliefs. These constellations are reproduced, challenged and changed in everyday language use. The study’s …
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Creating large semantic lexical resources for the Finnish language
… thesis is to contribute to the development of a semantic tagger for Finnish. This tool is a parallel of the English Semantic Tagger which has been developed at the University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL) at Lancaster University since the beginning of the 1990s and which …
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"You Must Prophesy Again": The Mission of God's People in Revelation 10-14
… key terms that were identified on the basis of a semantic field approach. Nine semantic fields of mission in Revelation, including their elements, were listed. This fact alone demonstrates that Revelation has more to say about mission than one could think on first reading. There is more on mission …
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The imputation of Christ's righteousness: A study of key Pauline texts
… of 5: 12-21. Special emphasis is given on the semantic fields kathistemi ("made righteous"). It is argued in this chapter that Christ, as the second Adam, not only began where Adam left off, but recapitulated the role of Adam as covenantal head. The representative nature of the text argues for …
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Vernacular vocabulary in the Durham Account Rolls (1278-1538): a philological approach
… in terms of attestations, etymology, and semantics, but it also explores whether, within this multilingual system, it is possible to trace features of Northern Middle English (NME). To the best of my knowledge, this question has not been tackled so far in the examination of multilingual …
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People centered HMI’s for deaf and functionally illiterate users
… about lexical relations between words, semantic relations between lexical concepts (synsets), correspondences between Italian and sign language lexical concepts and semantic fields (domains). The approach enhances the deaf users’ understanding of written Italian language and shows that a …
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Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
… and through the morpho-syntactic and semantic analysis a large number of various categories and subcategories have been deduced. The result clearly shows that the term hendiadys already in antiquity was used for various constructions, and that it it is applied to an profuse amount of …