Taking a stance and getting on with it: the form and function of the Finnish finite clausal extraposition construction

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritva Laury
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Sequential Design ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Grammatical Construction ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ordinary Conversation ◽  
And Function

AbstractThis paper concerns a particular grammatical construction, extraposition, and its use for assessments at points of transition between activities and topics by speakers of Finnish in ordinary conversation. A basic assumption taken here is that “recurrent clausal constructions of a language are social action formats for that language” (Thompson 2006), and that grammatical constructions such as clause types are learned and therefore routinized responses to certain types of interactional contingencies, and, at the same time, emergent from the current local context (Hopper 1987; Helasvuo 2001).The paper combines the two central perspectives developed in this issue, sequential design and dialogicality, with the study of grammar-in-interaction. It shows that the grammatical form of the Finnish extraposition construction emerges from its use by speakers for the creation of intersubjectivity through reproduction of prior talk and for the projection of stance taking to follow.

Religious Ideas and Social Action in Gurage Bond-Friendship

Africa ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Shack
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
And Function

Opening ParagraphInstitutions of bond-friendship as a form of voluntary association exist in many societies and, when viewed cross-tribally, they show considerable variation both in form and function.1 Even so, variations in the order of bond-friendship associations seem related to a common theme: namely, that there is an exchange of goods and/or services between parties to a ritual covenant that is reinforced by supernatural sanctions; and that protestations of mutual goodwill, together with calling for imprecations of evil to befall the individual who breaks the agreement, are elements which bind the covenant.

Policy-Driven Signing Frameworks in Open Electronic Transactions

2011 ◽  
pp. 114-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Mitrakas
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Electronic Signature ◽  
Electronic Signatures ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
Electronic Transactions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Function ◽  
Transaction Context

Electronically signed transactions typically associate the applied electronic signature with the signed data and implicitly with the terms and conditions related to the scope of the performed transaction. Some aspects of the association between an electronic signature and the transaction can be conveyed by means of a signature policy. Signature policies are a set of rules for the creation and validation of an electronic signature, under which an electronic signature can be determined to be valid. This chapter suggest however, that additional transaction constraints might be conveyed by means of a signature policy. Standardization work has highlighted signature policies as a significant element to leverage trust in electronic commerce transactions that make use of electronic signatures. Summing up technological, organizational and legal concerns, this chapter addresses issues related to the content, form and function of signature policies within a transaction context.

Creating and Augmenting Keyboards for Extended Reality with the K eyboard A ugmentation T oolkit

2022 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Mark McGill ◽  
Stephen Brewster ◽  
Daniel Pires De Sa Medeiros ◽  
Sidney Bovet ◽  
Mario Gutierrez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Study ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Text Entry ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Virtual Keyboard ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the Keyboard Augmentation Toolkit (KAT), which supports the creation of virtual keyboards that can be used both for standalone input (e.g., for mid-air text entry) and to augment physically tracked keyboards/surfaces in mixed reality. In a user study, we firstly examine the impact and pitfalls of visualising shortcuts on a tracked physical keyboard, exploring the utility of virtual per-keycap displays. Supported by this and other recent developments in XR keyboard research, we then describe the design, development, and evaluation-by-demonstration of KAT. KAT simplifies the creation of virtual keyboards (optionally bound to a tracked physical keyboard) that support enhanced display —2D/3D per-key content that conforms to the virtual key bounds; enhanced interactivity —supporting extensible per-key states such as tap, dwell, touch, swipe; flexible keyboard mappings that can encapsulate groups of interaction and display elements, e.g., enabling application-dependent interactions; and flexible layouts —allowing the virtual keyboard to merge with and augment a physical keyboard, or switch to an alternate layout (e.g., mid-air) based on need. Through these features, KAT will assist researchers in the prototyping, creation and replication of XR keyboard experiences, fundamentally altering the keyboard’s form and function.

The role of the house in early Neolithic Ireland

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 229-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Function ◽  
Neolithic Ireland

The focus of this article is the use and abandonment of the rectangular timber buildings of the Irish early Neolithic, a period that corresponds roughly with the first half of the fourth millennium cal BC. While they do not represent the only remains of occupation at this time, the fact that they display a striking degree of homogeneity of size, shape and materials makes them an especially interesting part of settlement activity on the island. One particular feature of this patterning is the frequency with which early Neolithic timber buildings have been substantially or completely destroyed by fire. It will be argued below that this burning was deliberate and played an important role in the lifecycle – the creation, maintenance and destruction – of these buildings. To provide a context for this discussion, a more in-depth look will be taken at these distinctive buildings and at their form and function.

scholarly journals Dealing with density: an evaluation of density benefit incentives in the Metro Vancouver Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Mattinson
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Metro Vancouver ◽  
And Function ◽  
Density Development

With increased demand for higher density development a key challenge for local governments is determining how to accommodate this growth while also addressing the pressure it places on local amenities and services. Density Benefit Incentives (DBIs) are a category of policy tools which address this issue by encouraging developers to provide much needed community benefits in exchange for increased density permissions. Due to flexible legislation pertaining to their use, however, the form and function of DBIs in practice can vary significantly. In order to understand the impacts of these policy tools this study investigates the use of three archetypical DBI frameworks commonly employed by municipalities within the Metro Vancouver region. A review of literature and policy in conjunction with case study analysis of three municipalities in the region identifies best practices for DBI implementation based on local context. The report culminates in a list of recommendations for local governments looking to implement their own DBI policy.

On Describing Olive Oil Tasting notes in English

Fachsprache ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Belén López Arroyo ◽  
Lucía Sanz Valdivieso
Keyword(s):  
Olive Oil ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Lexical Semantics ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

Professionals use language in particular ways, which are usually very accurate and precise, to communicate among themselves. Yet, some professionals, such as those in the olive oil tasting industry, face the problem of describing subjective impressions expressed and interpreted through language. The aim of this paper is the description of the genre and the language of olive oil tasting notes in English, focusing on the ways lexical units combine in order to help those olive oil tasting professionals produce acceptable olive oil tasting notes in English for their discourse community. This has been done using a corpus of olive oil tasting notes originally written in English designed and compiled ad-hoc for this purpose. Word combinations have been analysed from two perspectives: syntactic and grammatical form and function, and lexical semantics. The conclusions of these analyses and their results are intended to be a model upon which olive oil tasting language users can rely to write olive oil tasting notes with an accepted linguistic quality, allowing them to be recognized as part of the genre by the discourse community.

scholarly journals Dealing with density: an evaluation of density benefit incentives in the Metro Vancouver Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Mattinson
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
Metro Vancouver ◽  
And Function ◽  
Density Development

With increased demand for higher density development a key challenge for local governments is determining how to accommodate this growth while also addressing the pressure it places on local amenities and services. Density Benefit Incentives (DBIs) are a category of policy tools which address this issue by encouraging developers to provide much needed community benefits in exchange for increased density permissions. Due to flexible legislation pertaining to their use, however, the form and function of DBIs in practice can vary significantly. In order to understand the impacts of these policy tools this study investigates the use of three archetypical DBI frameworks commonly employed by municipalities within the Metro Vancouver region. A review of literature and policy in conjunction with case study analysis of three municipalities in the region identifies best practices for DBI implementation based on local context. The report culminates in a list of recommendations for local governments looking to implement their own DBI policy.

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Arscott ◽  
Gil Lee ◽  
Victor A. Bloomfield ◽  
D. Fennell Evans
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Inorganic Materials ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Dna And Rna ◽  
Calf Thymus ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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