Leveraging Semantic Transformation to Investigate Password Habits and Their Causes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ameya Hanamsagar ◽  
Simon S. Woo ◽  
Chris Kanich ◽  
Jelena Mirkovic
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Transformation

LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF CONFESSIONAL AND CULTURAL VALUES AS A MECHANISM FOR PRESERVING ETHNOCULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL IDENTITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
BUYANOVA LYUDMILA YU. ◽  
◽  
GUKASOVA ERA M. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Spiritual Identity ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The People ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Semantic Transformation

The features of linguistic conceptualization and representation of traditional confessional and cultural values in the linguocultural space of various societies are analyzed from ethnocultural, cognitive, socio-mental and linguo-confessional positions; identifies and characterizes constant and newest transformations and modifications of the denotative-semantic content of the most important concepts in the Russian and European mentality in the modern conditions of globalization. The theoretical significance lies in the presentation of a sharp socio-cultural "gap" in the definition of some confessional-conditioned phenomena in the Russian and Western cultural-historical traditions; in the representation of the mental and semantic transformation of some confessional value concepts in the Western linguocultural space while preserving, at the same time, the inviolability of the most important categorical and semantic features of the nominations of traditional axiological dominants in Russian culture as the foundations of the life of Russian society and Russian statehood as a whole. It is concluded that the linguistic representation of confessional-conditioned cultural values and their consolidation in the confessional memory of generations is a special mechanism for preserving the ethnocultural and spiritual identity of the people. It is shown that the so-called. “Cultural” globalization as an extralinguistic factor is currently in Western societies a process of gradual destruction of national, traditional and confessional values, which results in a significant change in semantics, denotative image and semantic code in the interpretation of some linguistic phenomena that represent the national axiological fund. The practical value of the presented material and observations lies in the possibility of its application in the practice of teaching university courses in language theory, ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural linguistics, linguoconfessionology and intercultural communication.

Polysemy of Words Expressing Human Body Parts of The Four Limb Area in Thai Language in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Ha Thi Mai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Thai Language ◽  
Unit Of Measurement ◽  
Semantic Transformation

The nomenclature and polysemiosis of body parts has constituted a central part of linguistics, and of Linguistic Anthropology. The ramifications of such work make inroads into our understandings of many fields, including language contact, semiotics, and so forth, This current paper identifies the structures and emerging denotations of expressions of human body parts (HBPs) in Thai language, and ways in which these dimensions reflect polysemy. The study thus applies the following methods: Field research methods of linguistics, description, comparison, and collation. As sources of data, this study surveys Thai rhymes, fairy tales, riddles and riddle songs, rhyming  stories, children’s songs and linguistic data of daily speeches in the  northwest of Vietnam. The paper uses theories on word meaning and the transformation of word meaning. To aid analysis, this paper applies methods of  analyzing meaning components so to construct significative meaning structures of words expressing HBPs in Thai language, thus identifying the semantemes chosen to be the basis for the transformation. In the polysemy of  words expressing HBPs of the four limbs, the polysemy of words expressing  the following parts were studied: khèn - tay, cánh tay (arm); mễ – tay, bàn  tay (hand); khà - đùi (thigh); tìn - chân, bàn chân (leg, foot). Directions of semantic transformation of words expressing HBPs in Thai language are as  diversified and as multi-leveled as Vietnamese. Furthermore, in Thai language, there occur differences in the four scopes of semantic transformation, as compared with Vietnamese, including “people’s characteristics,” “human activities,” “nomination of things with activities like HBPs’ activities,” and “unit of measurement.” This study contributes to Linguistic Anthropology by suggesting that the polysemy of words expressing HBPs of the four limb area in Thai language will outline a list of linguistic phenomena which serve as the basis to understand cultural and national features, in the light of perception and categorization of the reality of the Thai minority with reference to Vietnamese.

scholarly journals El concepto de interés en España, 1770-1823 / The Concept of Interest in Spain, 1770-1823

2017 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Luis Fernández Torres
Keyword(s):  
Political Community ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Semantic Transformation ◽  
Spanish Enlightenment

The extension in the use, its semantic transformation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its comparatively scarce interest as a subject of reflection for contemporary writers constitute three features that distinguished and provided with a peculiar history the concept of interest. Only in rare occasions this dominated the centre of discourse over that period. Notwithstanding this minor position, the concept of interest proved to be a key lexical tool in the efforts to redefine both the idea of social and political community and the nature of links that help maintain this community united.Key WordsInterest, Spanish Enlightenment, history of concepts, liberalism, common good.ResumenLa extensión en el uso, su transformación semántica entre finales del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX y su comparativamente escasa atracción como objeto de estudio en los autores coetáneos constituyen tres rasgos que singularizan y dotan de una historia peculiar al concepto de interés. Solo en raras ocasiones este se erigió en centro del discurso en el citado período. A pesar de esa posición secundaria, dicho concepto fue un instrumento léxico clave en los esfuerzos de reformulación tanto de la idea de comunidad social y política como de la naturaleza de los vínculos que mantienen unida de dicha comunidad.Palabras claveInterés, Ilustración española, historia de los conceptos, liberalismo, bien común.

"Semantic modification and lexical neologization – a means of enriching the Bulgarian lexicon"

Lyuboslovie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 293-310
Author(s):  
Teodora G. Ilieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Word Formation ◽  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Foreign Word ◽  
Word Combination ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Formal Relations ◽  
Semantic Transformation

In this article the neo-semanticisms are presented by real neologisms and occasionalisms, excerpted in recent years from Bulgarian media texts with different thematic orientation and stylistic expression. Commens are also made on the lexicon that has emerged through tracing and borrowing, which builds formal relations of homonymy with words that already exist in our language. Each of the 44 lexical items is presented in a dictionary article, including its morphological and semantic characteristics; word formation parameters; the motivating foreign word (if any); distribution of the palette of semes registered in the lexicographic arrays; the new sememe – the result of semantic transformation, in a minimal context; classification of the free and/or stable word combination it forms; the formal and semantic relations in which it enters and its stylistic affiliation. The study finds that the enrichment of the vocabulary of the Bulgarian language is achieved as a result of democratization, colloquialization and internationalization of the language. Semantic modifications are realized mainly through: metaphorization, metonymization, personification and comparison.

A Semantic Transformation Approach for ISO 15926

2006 ◽  
pp. 281-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hakkarainen ◽  
Lillian Hella ◽  
Darijus Strasunskas ◽  
Stine Tuxen
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Approach ◽  
Semantic Transformation

scholarly journals Enhanced Text Matching Based on Semantic Transformation

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 30897-30904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shutao Zhang ◽  
Haibo Tan ◽  
Liangfeng Chen ◽  
Bo Lv
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Transformation ◽  
Text Matching

Mobility pattern analysis of ship trajectories based on semantic transformation and topic model

2020 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 107092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Huang ◽  
Yuanqiao Wen ◽  
Wei Guo ◽  
Xinyan Zhu ◽  
Chunhui Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Mobility Pattern ◽  
Semantic Transformation

Concepts, History and the Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons: A Defense of Conceptual History

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 426-452
Author(s):  
D. Timothy Goering
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Wilfrid Sellars ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Abstract Entities ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Semantic Transformation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Abstract This article offers a defense of the theoretical foundations of Conceptual History (Begriffsgeschichte). While Conceptual History has successfully established itself as an historical discipline, details in the philosophy of language that underpin Conceptual History continue to be opaque. Specifically the definition of what constitutes a “basic concept” (Grundbegriff) remains problematic. Reinhart Koselleck famously claimed that basic concepts are “more than words,” but he never spelled out how these abstract entities relate to words or can be subject to semantic transformation. I argue that to clarify the definition of what constitutes a basic concept we should turn to the functionalist and inferentialist philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. By viewing historical sources as partaking in what Sellars calls the ‘game of giving and asking for reasons,’ Conceptual History can accurately trace the semantic changes of basic concepts and thus offer an important tool to the historical discipline.

The Doxa of Reading

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Goldstone
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Literary History ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Semantic Transformation

Reading Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees as a late-stage graduate student in 2008 was invigorating. Here was an approach to literary history free from the pieties of close reading, committed to empiricism, seeking to fulfill, with its “materialist conception of form,” the promise of the sociology of literature (92). And, at the time, it seemed natural that the way to follow the path laid out by Moretti in Graphs and in the essays he had published over the previous decade was to go to my computer, polish my rusty programming skills, and start making graphs. Yet reconsidering Moretti's Distant Reading now, one is struck by how nondigital the book is. In fact, the meaning of distant reading has undergone a rapid semantic transformation. In “Conjectures on World Literature,” originally published in 2000, Moretti introduces the phrase to describe “a patchwork of other people's research, without a single direct textual reading” (Distant Reading 48). Today, however, distant reading typically refers to computational studies of text. Introducing a 2016 cluster of essays called “Text Analysis at Scale,” Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein employ the term to speak of “using digital tools to ‘read’ large swaths of text” (Introduction); in his contribution to the cluster, Ted Underwood embraces “distant reading” as a name for applying machine-learning techniques to unstructured text. Discussions of distant reading have become discussions of computation with text, even if no section of Distant Reading features the elaborate computations found in the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlets to which Moretti has contributed.

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