Meaning and Information: the semantic dimension of communication

2007 ◽  
pp. 25-66
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Dimension

Beckett's Early Verse and the Modernist Long Poem: A Study of ‘Enueg I’

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Sławomir Studniarz
Keyword(s):  
Long Poem ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Underlying Network ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
The Cantos ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

The premise of the article is the contention that Beckett studies have been focused too much on the philosophical, cultural and psychological dimensions of his established canon, at the expense of the artistry. That research on Beckett's work is issue-driven rather than otherwise, and the slender extant body of criticism specifically on his poetic achievements bears no comparison with the massive exploration of the other facets of Beckett's artistic activity. The critical neglect of Beckett's poetry may not be commensurate with the quality of his verse. And it is in the spirit of remedying this oversight that the present article is offered, focusing on ‘Enueg I’, a representative poem from Echo's Bones, which exhibits all the salient features of Beckett's early poetry. It is argued that Beckett's early verse display the twofold influence, that of the transatlantic Modernism of Eliot and Pound, and of French poetry, specifically the visionary and experimental works of Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and the surrealists. Furthermore, the article also demonstrates that ‘Enueg I’ testifies to Beckett's ambition to compose a complex long Modernist poem in the vein of The Waste Land or The Cantos. Beckett's ‘Enueg I’ has much in common with Eliot's exemplary disjunctive Modernist long poem. Both poems are premised on the acutely felt cultural crisis and display the similar tenor in their ending. Finally, they both close with the vision of the doomed and paralyzed world, and the prevalent sense of sterility and dissolution. In the subsequent analysis, which takes up the bulk of the article, careful attention is paid to the patterning of the verbal material, including also the most fundamental level, that of the arrangements of phonemes, with a view to uncovering the underlying network of sound patterns, which contributes decisively to the semantic dimension of the poem.

scholarly journals HERMENÊUTICA TRANSCENDENTAL

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (115) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
F. Javier Herrero
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Temporal Ontology ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Normative Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Reductive Process ◽  
Semantic Dimension

O autor tenta mostrar que a virada lingüística, realizada por Heidegger a partir de sua transformação hermenêutica da fenomenologia, leva consigo uma identificação de “linguagem” e “razão”, que terá como conseqüência uma destranscendentalização da razão, na medida em que a abertura lingüística do mundo se torna instância última de validade de toda experiência intramundana, de todo acontecer da verdade, o qual supõe a primazia do significado sobre a referência e, finalmente, a primazia da dimensão semântica sobre a pragmática (como medium do entendimento). Gadamer aprofunda as condições de possibilidade do entendimento mostrando a nossa pertença à tradição, de forma que a linguagem constitui o verdadeiro acontecer hermenêutico, na medida em que vem à fala o dito na tradição. Essa conexão com a tradição é vista como “fonte de verdade”, de forma que assegura o poder normativo da tradição, e continua o processo de destranscendentalização. Apel mostrará que a raiz deste processo redutor se encontra na equiparação das condições de possibilidade da compreensão do sentido com as condições de possibilidade da validade intersubjetiva da compreensão. Mas ele encontrará a resposta à pergunta pela validade, não numa ontologia temporal do compreender entendida como acontecer da verdade, mas em idéias regulativas no sentido de Kant e Peirce. Estas se mostram capazes de orientar normativamente a compreensão, possibilitando assim uma nova retranscendentalização da hermenêutica, não só compatível com a historicidade de toda constituição de sentido, mas de forma que permite a reconstrução do passado parra uma apropriação crítica das tradições culturais e a projeção de um novo futuro cada vez mais humano.Abstract: The author intends to show that the linguistic turn taken by Heidegger with his hermeneutical transformation of phenomenology, carries with it an identification between “language” and “reason”, which will lead to a detranscendentalization of the reason, in so far as the linguistic opening of the World becomes the ultimate instance of the value of all intermundane experience and of all happenings of truth, which supposes the precedence of meaning over reference and, finally, the precedence of the semantic dimension over the pragmatic one (as a medium of understanding). Gadamer furthers the conditions of the possibility of understanding showing our belonging to tradition, so that language constitutes the true hermeneutic happening, in so far as what is uttered is the spoken word of tradition. The connection with tradition is seen as “the source of all truth,” so that what he proposes secures the normative power of tradition and advances the detranscendentalization process. Apel will show that the root of this reductive process can be found in the equalization between the conditions of the possibility of the understanding of meaning and those of the possibility of the intersubjective validity of understanding. However, he will find an answer to the question of validity, not in a temporal ontology of understanding comprehended as a happening of truth, but in regulative ideas according to Kant and Peirce. Those ideas are able to normatively orient understanding, allowing for a new hermeneutical retranscendentalization, which is compatible with the historicity of any constitution of meaning in such a way that it enables the reconstruction of the past in view of a critical appropriation of cultural traditions and the projection of a new future, increasingly more human.

scholarly journals Modelos híbridos de indexação social: análise do repositório de fanfictions Archive of Our Own (AO3)

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
Bruna Daniele de Oliveira Silva ◽  
Deise Maria Antonio Sabbag
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid System ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Participatory Model

The digital environment has enabled new forms of production, consumption and organization of digital content, such as social indexing. This indexing consists onthe attribution of free tags by users or communities. Fanfictions are fictional stories created by fans, they are deposited in repositories and their indexing is performed by the authors themselves, using a hybrid system of controlled and natural languages. The research aimed to describe qualitatively the social indexing implemented in the fanfictions repositor,Archive of Our Own, in order to make some reflections about the new modes of production and user participation in the representation of content onthe social web. It is concluded that the indexing performed in the analyzed repository adds a curated folkonomy through a team of volunteers trained to follow specific norms. The repository establishes a hybrid and participatory model for indexing itscontent, adding a semantic dimension while ensuring the recovery.

scholarly journals (Anti)Fascism and Superhero Comics: An Anthropological Examination of Innovativeness in Comic Books as Exemplified by "V for Vendetta"

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Zarić
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
The Way ◽  
V For Vendetta

The paper analyzes the V for Vendetta comic books, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. These volumes are graphic novels whose characteristics place them in the literary genre of the critical dystopia, but they have also been associated with the genre of the superhero comic, which, according to a number of authors including Alan Moore, is inextricably linked to the ideology and practice of the political right, which in its extreme form assumes the form of fascism. The way that fascism is treated in that work, as well as in two other comics discussed in the paper (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns), is linked to the way in which the process of creativity/innovativeness functioned in the context of the revision/deconstruction of the superhero comic book genre in the 1980s, both on the collective (intra-genre) and the individual level, on the level of the thought structure of the British writer Alan Moore. Using the structural-semiotic model of analysis, the paper seeks to fathom the logic of this deconstruction procedure "broken down" into the three comic books discussed in the paper, with particular emphasis on the analysis of V for Vendetta, with the aim of establishing its "hidden", connotative semantic dimension. The study adopts a modern view of the comic book according to which the essence of this medium, which distinguishes it from other narrative and graphic forms of expression as well as from film, can be recognized in the specific, sequential way of combining its visual and narrative components, thus generating meanings whose interpretation depends on the intention of the author but also on the view of the reader.

scholarly journals “LUSSO DI OSTENTAZIONE” E “LUSSO DI COMODO”. TRA ECONOMIA E POLITICA: UN LINGUAGGIO DI RIFORMA DELLA SOCIETÀ NELLA MILANO DEL “CAFFÈ”

2011 ◽  
pp. 69-105
Author(s):  
Manuela Albertone ◽  
Cecilia Carnino
Keyword(s):  
Typical Feature ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Free Disposal ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Political Objective ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Italian Context ◽  
Intellectual Environment ◽  
Economics And Politics

Luxury of ostentation and luxury of comfort. Between economics and politics: a Milanese language of reform in the age of Il Caffè. This essay considers the eighteenth-century European debate on luxury and focuses in particular on the distinction between positive luxury – which was considered economically useful and capable of enhancing economic and social development – and negative luxury – which was seen as an essentially unproductive form of overspending. In the Italian setting that distinction, which had been at the centre of European debate since the 1750s, was especially discussed in Milan during the 1760s and 1770s within the circle of reformers gathered around the periodical Il Caffè. One purpose of this essay is to analyse the way in which the contrast between negative and positive luxury took shape in the specific context of the Milanese circle of Accademia dei Pugni. In particular, the essay sets out to prove that the contrast between negative and positive luxury became key to the political language of reform and criticism of hereditary aristocracy and of the conservative institutions regulating landed property and its transmission. The reformers’ goal was in fact to give impetus to a new legitimization of the ruling classes on the basis of economic effectiveness and to promote the abolition of legal institutions such as the majorat and the fideicommissum, which were designed to protect the property of traditional nobility. In this perspective the Milanese, or rather the Italian, context emerged as a distinctive case characterised by a language of transformation of the ancien régime social structures and by strong demands for the redistribution of wealth. Another purpose of the essay is to explore the circulation of ideas between France and the Milanese intellectual environment, and in particular to examine how the circle around Il Caffè was stimulated by the French debate on luxury through the opposing perspectives developed, respectively, by writers around the superintendent of commerce Vincent de Gournay and the Physiocrats. Among the writers who took a positive view of luxury, Forbonnais’s and Plumard de Dangeul’s criticism of luxury whenever it was not associated with productive activities such as trade and agriculture, followed a precise political strategy by attacking the financiers and their accumulation of huge fortunes concentrated in the French capital. The Physiocrats took a different view and identified two different types of luxury. In particular, Quesnay distinguished between luxe de décoration and luxe de subsistence. He justified the former as a manifestation of landowners’ free disposal of wealth, but was also aware that, differently from the luxe de subsistence, it could seriously reduce the net product available for reproduction and accumulation. The essay, by focusing on the semantic dimension, shows that Milanese writers such as Beccaria and Verri developed an original framework combining the consideration of the contrast between useful and harmful luxury in view of a specific political objective (a theme characteristic of Vincent de Gournay’s circle) with the emphasis on agriculture and landowners’ expenses (a typical feature of the Physiocratic approach).

Relation-Based Information Retrieval

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 133-138
Author(s):  
D. Manjula ◽  
T. V. Geetha
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Irrelevant Information ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Additional Dimension ◽  
Word Context ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Word Senses ◽  
Insight Into

The traditional Boolean word-based approach to information retrieval (IR) considers only words for indexing. Irrelevant information is retrieved because of non-inclusion of semantic information like word senses and word context. In this work, the importance of representing the documents along another semantic dimension in addition to sense context information is considered. The incorporation of semantic relations as an additional dimension gives a better insight into the interpretation of the document. The micro-contexts generated from the documents are also used in indexing. The retrieval performance is measured in terms of precision and recall. The results tabulated show better performance.

SEMANTIC DIMENSION NAMING (SDN): A PROCESS FOR NAMING DIMENSIONS IN A SEMANTIC SPACE

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 61-85
Author(s):  
Zainab M. AlQenaei ◽  
David E. Monarchi
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Space ◽  
Semantic Dimension

Auditory Stroop Effects in Children With Hearing Impairment

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 1083-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Jerger ◽  
Gayle Stout ◽  
Marilyn Kent ◽  
Elizabeth Albritton ◽  
Louise Loiselle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Stroop Interference ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Speed Accuracy ◽  
The Voice

The accurate perception of speech involves the processing of multidimensional information. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of the semantic dimension on the processing of the auditory dimension of speech by children with hearing impairment. The processing interactions characterizing the semantic and auditory dimensions were assessed with a pediatric auditory Stroop task. The subjects, 20 children with hearing impairment and 60 children with normal hearing, were instructed to attend selectively to the voice-gender of speech targets while ignoring the semantic content. The type of target was manipulated to represent conflicting, neutral, and congruent relations between dimensions (e.g., the male voice saying "Mommy," "ice cream," or "Daddy" respectively). The normal-hearing listeners could not ignore the irrelevant semantic content. Instead, reaction times were slower to the conflict targets (Stroop interference) and faster to the congruent targets (Stroop congruency). The subjects with hearing impairment showed prominent Stroop congruency, but minimal Stroop interference. Reduced Stroop interference was not associated with chronological age, a speed-accuracy tradeoff, a non-neutral baseline, or relatively poorer discriminability of the word input. The present results suggest that the voice-gender and semantic dimensions of speech were not processed independently by these children, either those with or those without hearing loss. However, the to-be-ignored semantic dimension exerted a less consistent influence on the processing of the voice-gender dimension in the presence of childhood hearing loss. The overall pattern of results suggests that speech processing by children with hearing impairment is carried out in a less stimulus-bound manner.

scholarly journals The method of negation in the Arabic language in light of the Holy Quran: أسلوب النـفـي في اللغة العربية في ضوء القرآن الكريم

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Bin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Arabic Poetry ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Linguistic Reality

Method of negation is the linguistic phenomenon common in Arabic language; therefore, many tools, and varied manifestations. Ancient grammarians differed in the interpretation of this phenomenon and develop its provisions; because they did not relate the linguistic reality interpreted in Arabic, but simply described the level of compositional construction. This search is a modest attempt to explore the phenomenon of negative structures. Through the dialectal dimension and semantic dimension; and all this in the light of Koranic readings and Arabic poetry. Also we want to emphasize the important relationship between the grammar lesson and dialectal lesson and Koranic readings in order to reach a sound directed toward me and away from the arbitrariness of some grammarians.

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