scholarly journals Constitution of ethnozoological semantic domains: meaning and inclusiveness of the lexeme "insect" for the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dídac Santos-Fita ◽  
Eraldo M Costa-Neto ◽  
Alexandre Schiavetti
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Specific Definition ◽  
Semantic Domains

This article deals with the sociocultural construction of the 'insect' and 'animal' domains by the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca (municipality of Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil). The fieldwork was performed from September 2006 to July 2007. The data was obtained by means of open-ended interviews of 74 individuals of both genders whose ages ranged from 4 to 89 years old. The results show that the interviewees were unable to say in an accurate and secure way a specific definition for each domain. Depending on how a given animal is culturally interpreted, it could belong to the semantic domain 'animal' or 'insect', being representative of one or another group. However, in practice, such a distinction between these two semantic domains appears as something tenuous and ambiguous. Researchers who carry out biodiversity inventories should pay attention to the ethnocategory 'insect' during their studies, especially if these involve the participation of traditional community representatives

Sukacita Di dalam Surat Filipi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Semantic Domains

Buku Sukacita di dalam Surat Filipi adalah sebuah penelitian tentangkonsep sukacita di dalam surat Filipi dengan menggunakanpendekatan integrasi antara analisis wacana (discourse analysis)dan rentangan semantis (semantic domain). Buku ini juga adalah revisi daribuku sebelumnya yang berjudul Konsep Sukacita di dalam Surat Filipi yangpernah terbit pada tahun 2012. Penulis menyempurnakan konsep sukacitaini dengan penambahan pendekatan yakni analisis wacana (makro)sebelum melakukan analisis rentangan semantis (mikro).Penelitian William G. Morrice tentang sukacita dalam bukunya Joy inthe New Testament(1984), karya tulis dari Johanes P. Louw dalam bukunyayang berjudul the Semantics of New Testament Greek (1982), dan karyamonumental dari Louw dan Eugene A. Nida dalam leksikon yang berjudulGreek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (1988)telah menginspirasi dan membantu penulis dalam menyelesaikan buku ini.Bagi penulis, buku ini adalah bentuk nyata pertolongan AllahTritunggal yang Mahakudus. Pujian dan kemuliaan hanya ditujukankepada-Nya. Buku ini telah melalui proses penulisan yang panjangsehingga tidak lupa penulis mengucap terima kasih kepada para mentordan inspirator seperti Pdt. Ir. Armand Barus, Ph.D, Pdt. Dr. MarulakPasaribu, D.Min., dan Pdt. Dr. Hardi Budiyana.Buku ini didedikasikan kepada para pembaca yang serius mencaripikiran Allah yang tertulis di dalam Alkitab. Semoga buku ini bisabermanfaat bagi gereja-gereja dan kalangan akademisi untuk menambahkekayaan spiritual yang begitu banyak di dalam Alkitab. Tidak lupa jugabuku ini adalah produk manusia yang tentu tidak luput dari kesalahansehingga penulis mengharapkan masukan-masukan dari para pembacauntuk kesempurnaan buku ini.

Two Indices Are Better than One: Building on Robbins, Nolan, and Chen (2017)

Field Methods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
David Bimler ◽  
Mari Uusküla
Keyword(s):  
Body Parts ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Two Indices ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Semantic Domains

When informants from a given culture are asked to list items from a specified semantic domain, their lists provide two indicators of each term’s prominence or salience: its frequency of appearance across lists and its mean position within the lists that include it. Smith et al. (1995), Sutrop (2001), and most recently Robbins et al. (2017) have defined salience measures that combine these two sources of information. We argue that although frequency and mean position are correlated, the association between them is not perfect and not linear. Plotting them as separate axes of a scatterplot can be informative and complementary to combining them in a single salience measure. We illustrate this with scatterplots for three semantic domains: color terms, animal names, and body parts.

scholarly journals A case for corpus stylistics

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Mahlberg ◽  
Dan McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
Semantic Domains

In this article we investigate keywords and key semantic domains in Fleming’s Casino Royale. We identify groups of keywords that describe elements of the fictional world such as characters and settings as well as thematic signals. The keyword groups fall into two broad categories that are characterized as text-centred and reader-centred, with the latter providing particular clues for interpretation. We also compare the manually identified keyword groups with key semantic domains that are based on automatic semantic analysis. The comparison shows, for instance, how words that do not seem to fit a semantic domain can be seen as reader-centred keywords fulfilling specific textual functions. By linking our analysis to arguments in literary criticism, we show how quantitative and qualitative approaches can usefully complement one another.

Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Kristina BOWDRIE ◽  
Rachael Frush HOLT ◽  
Andrew BLANK ◽  
Laura WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Signal ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Lexical Aspect ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Play Session ◽  
Grammatical Morphology ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Semantic Domains

Abstract Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal hearing (NH) children have been found to do. Thirty DHH children (M = 6;8) and 29 NH children (M = 5;11) acquiring English participated in a free-play session and their tokens of perfective (simple past) and imperfective (-ing) morphology were coded for the lexical aspect of the predicate they marked. Both groups showed established prototype effects, favoring perfective + telic and imperfective + atelic pairings over perfective + atelic and perfective + atelic ones. Thus, despite reduced access to the acoustic signal, this DHH group was unimpaired for aspectual organization.

scholarly journals GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR REPRESENTATIONS AND TRANSGRAMMATICAL SEMANTIC DOMAINS IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 365-377
Author(s):  
Amrin Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
English Text ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Semantic Domains

Grammatical metaphor refers to the coding of meaning or experience in the manner as if the meaning or experience were coded by another lexicogrammatical coding.  Metaphorical representation implies that there are two manners of coding, namely the congruent or literal and incongruent or metaphorical coding.  Transgrammatical semantic domains extends meaning by a range of grammatical units.  Transgrammatical semantic coding implies that agnated meanings are realized by more than one semantic unit.  Grammtical metaphor representation inherently contains transgrammatical coding.  This paper addresses grammatical metaphor commonly used in texts of science, technology and academics, which are very difficult for Indonesian students to understand and translate into good bahasa Indonesia (BI).  By applying knowledge or competence of gramatical metaphor and transgrammatical semantic domain Indonesian students are expected to effectively learn the meaning of English text of science, technology and academics and to translate the texts into good BI. 

scholarly journals Combining concepts across categorical domains: a linking role of the precuneus

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Rabini ◽  
Silvia Ubaldi ◽  
Scott L. Fairhall
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Category ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Conceptual Combination ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Single Category ◽  
Semantic Domains

Abstract The human capacity for semantic knowledge entails not only the representation of single concepts but the capacity to combine these concepts into the increasingly complex ideas that underlie human thought. This process involves not only the combination of concepts from within the same semantic category but frequently the conceptual combination across semantic domains. In this fMRI study (N=24) we investigate the cortical mechanisms underlying our ability to combine concepts across different semantic domains. Using five different semantic domains (People, Places, Food, Objects and Animals), we present sentences depicting concepts drawn from a single semantic domain as well as sentences that combine concepts from two of these domains. Contrasting single-category and combinedcategory sentences reveals that the precuneus is more active when concepts from different domains have to be combined. At the same time, we observe that distributed category selectivity representations persist when higher-order meaning involves the combination of categories and that this category-selective response is captured by the combination of the single categories composing the sentence. Collectively, these results suggest that the precuneus plays a role in the combination of concepts across different semantic domains, potentially functioning to link together category-selective representations distributed across the cortex.

Antitotalitarian language in Poland: Some mechanisms of linguistic self-defense

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wierzbicka
Keyword(s):  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semantic Domains

ABSTRACTThis article explores the concept of political diglossia, a phenomenon arising in totalitarian or semitotalitarian countries, where the language of official propaganda gives rise to its opposite: the unofficial, underground language of antipropaganda. The author studies one semantic domain – the colloquial designations of the political police and security forces in contemporary Poland – and compares them with the official designations. The semantics of the relevant words and expressions is studied in great detail so that the social attitudes encoded in them can be revealed and rigorously compared. To achieve this, the author relies on the natural semantic metalanguage that she has developed over the last two decades, which has already been applied in the study of many other semantic domains, in many different languages. The social and political attitudes encoded in the Polish expressions referring to the security apparatus are discussed against the background of Poland's history. The author shows that language is not only the best “mirror of mind” (Leibniz) and “mirror of culture” and “guide to social reality” (Sapir), but also a mirror of history and politics. (Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, language of propaganda, expressive language)

scholarly journals Similar Vertices and Isomorphism Detection for Planar Kinematic Chains Based on Ameliorated Multi-Order Adjacent Vertex Assignment Sequence

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Sun ◽  
Zhizheng Ye ◽  
Fuwei Lu ◽  
Rongjiang Cui ◽  
Chuanyu Wu
Keyword(s):  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Adjacent Vertex ◽  
Topological Graph ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Kinematic Chains ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Specific Definition

AbstractIsomorphism detection is fundamental to the synthesis and innovative design of kinematic chains (KCs). The detection can be performed accurately by using the similarity of KCs. However, there are very few works on isomorphism detection based on the properties of similar vertices. In this paper, an ameliorated multi-order adjacent vertex assignment sequence (AMAVS) method is proposed to seek out similar vertices and identify the isomorphism of the planar KCs. First, the specific definition of AMAVS is described. Through the calculation of the AMAVS, the adjacent vertex value sequence reflecting the uniqueness of the topology features is established. Based on the value sequence, all possible similar vertices, corresponding relations, and isomorphism discrimination can be realized. By checking the topological graph of KCs with a different number of links, the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method are verified. Finally, the method is employed to implement the similar vertices and isomorphism detection of all the 9-link 2-DOF(degree of freedom) planar KCs.

scholarly journals No relationship between bone mineral density and syndesmophyte formation at the same level in the lumbar spine of patients with radiographic axial Spondyloarthritis

RMD Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e001391
Author(s):  
Mary Lucy Marques ◽  
Sofia Ramiro ◽  
Pedro M Machado ◽  
Desirée van der Heijde ◽  
Floris A van Gaalen
Keyword(s):  
Bone Mineral Density ◽  
Lumbar Spine ◽  
Bone Mineral ◽  
Axial Spondyloarthritis ◽  
Mineral Density ◽  
Multivariable Analyses ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Generalised Estimating Equations ◽  
Specific Definition

ObjectiveTo investigate if in radiographic axial Spondyloarthritis (r-axSpA) low vertebral bone mineral density (BMD) is associated with development of new syndesmophytes at the same vertebral level.MethodsIn a post-hoc analysis from the ASSERT trial (infliximab vs placebo), dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry was used to measure baseline BMD (g/cm2) of the lumbar spine L1 to L4. Syndesmophyte formation was assessed in the same vertebrae on conventional radiographs defined as an increase in modified Stoke Ankylosing Spondylitis Spine Score from 0 or 1 to 2 or 3 after 2 years. Radiographs were scored by two readers. Generalised estimating equations (GEE) adjusted for within-patient correlation across multiple vertebrae, taking potential confounders into account.ResultsWe analysed 599 vertebrae in 165 r-axSpA patients (78% male, mean (SD) age 38 (10) years, 67% with at least one syndesmophyte anywhere in the spine). In total, 24 to 74 new syndesmophytes developed in 9 (5%) to 30 (18%) patients and 13 (2%) to 39 (7%) vertebrae, if either a syndesmophyte was seen by both or only one of the readers (ie, specific and sensitive definitions) respectively. In multivariable analyses, no association was found between baseline local vertebral BMD and new syndesmophyte formation after 2 years: adjOR (95% CI): 0.56 (0.01, 44.45) (specific definition) and 0.26 (0.03, 2.63) (sensitive definition).ConclusionIn patients with active and established r-axSpA, with an observed low incidence of lumbar spine syndesmophyte formation over 2 years, no relationship was found between baseline BMD and new radiographic syndesmophyte formation at the same vertebra.

Consent after the House of Lords: Taking and leading astray the Law of Theft

Legal Studies ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-322
Author(s):  
Mitchell C. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Specific Definition

The objectives of the Criminal Law Revision Committee when drafting the radical reforms proposed by the 1966 Theft Bill were described by a contemporary commentator2 as being: ‘. . . to do away with the more embarrassing and restrictive technicalities of the existing law . . .’In the same place it was observed that the Committee faced a choice between creating a specific definition of the various theft offences and their elements, or one whose generality would allow it to evolve to meet the challenges presented by ever more complex and sophisticated dishonest dealing.

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