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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"semantic range"”.
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Negotiating Environmental Relationships: Why Language Matters to Environmental Philosophy
… animal and human language point to our unique semantic range, which results from our neuro-linguistic process of signification. An examination of the linguistic implications of the problem of nature and the tenets of semiotics challenges the idea of a clean word to world fit. Because signs are …
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Trope and taxonomy : an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine
… form rather than content, flexibility in the semantic range of illness categories, and the identification of illness with familiar aspects of the environment, in particular animals. These processes are also important in determining the treatment of illness. A brief examination of the …
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Trope and taxonomy : an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine
… form rather than content, flexibility in the semantic range of illness categories, and the identification of illness with familiar aspects of the environment, in particular animals. These processes are also important in determining the treatment of illness. A brief examination of the …
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Virgil's Aeneid, Book 8; An Experiment in Translation
English and Latin, though related, are very different languages, Latin with its inflections and small vocabulary, English with its overwhelming word order and expansive lexicon. Any translation from Latin to English will necessarily involve explanatory additions to the text. This is all the more …
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The epistemic properties in a typical engineering science course and its relation to student success: a case study
… were analysed using the theoretical concept of semantics (semantic gravity and semantic density) which is one of the dimensions of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) developed by Karl Maton. The analysis of the data uncovered two main issues. Firstly, there is a wide semantic range in the required …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… type of incorporation looked at in detail. The semantic range of body part terms, which may be incorporated in either literal or classificatory senses, is surveyed, and a number of verb stem derivations involving body part terms are presented. Chapter Six examines the semantic contribution made …
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Marrithiyel : a language of the Daly River region of Australia's Northern Territory
… type of incorporation looked at in detail. The semantic range of body part terms, which may be incorporated in either literal or classificatory senses, is surveyed, and a number of verb stem derivations involving body part terms are presented. Chapter Six examines the semantic contribution made …
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Biblical Sources in the Development of the Concept of the Soul in the Writings of the Fathers of the Early Christian church, 100-325 C.E.
… the writings of the early Church Fathers. Their semantic range and the understanding of the powers and activities of the soul are studied. Following this background examination, the study then looks at the role of Scripture as an authoritative source for the early Church Fathers in the …
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
… 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 metaphor and metonymy also aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how meaning is extended, which leads to a proper …
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Typological Structures in the Old and New Testaments
… cognates in order to (1) ascertain the overall semantic range of the terms up to and including NT times, (2) determine their breadth of signification in the twenty biblical occurrences, and (3) isolate the NT hermeneutical τύπος passages.</p> <p>It is seen that τύπος has an astonishing wealth of …