Designing (Re)Activism: The Semantic Value of Artefacts in Discursive Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
M. Federica Pesce
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Value ◽  
Discursive Design

Methods of Communicative Intention Explication of the Phraseological Unit with Biblical Expression «Forbidden Fruit» (Diachronic Section)

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Olga Lomakina ◽  
Oksana Shkuran
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Communicative Intention ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge ◽  
Media Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Semantic Value ◽  
Book Of Genesis ◽  
Good And Evil

The article analyzes methods of explication of the traditional and widely used stable biblical expression «forbidden fruit». The study is based on a diachronic section – from the interpretation of the biblical text to the communicative intention of dialogue participants in the media space illustrating nuclear and peripheral meanings. The analysis includes biblical texts that realize the archetypal meaning of the biblical expression «forbidden fruit» in which it is called the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The secularized interest in the kind of tree, on which forbidden fruits grew, is motivated by a realistic presentation of a sad history of the first people’s fall in the Book of Genesis. Scientific hypotheses have their origins since the Middle Ages, when artists recreated the author’s story of eating the forbidden fruit. For religion, the variety of the fruit is not of fundamental importance, however, visualization in the works of art has become an incentive for the further use of the biblical expression with a new semantic segment. Modern media texts actively represent the transformation of the biblical expression«forbidden fruit» for different purposes: in advertising texts for pragmatic one, in informative, educational, ideological texts for cognitive one, in entertaining textsfor communicative one, lowering the spiritual and semantic value register of the modern language. Therefore, the process of desemantization and profanization of the biblical expression results in the destruction of national stereotypes in Russian people’s worldview.

From Meaning to Content

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Recanati
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Semantic Value

According to a widespread picture due to Kaplan, there are two levels of semantic value: character and content. Character is determined by the grammar, and it determines content with respect to context. In this chapter Recanati criticizes that picture on several grounds. He shows that we need more than two levels, and rejects the determination thesis: that linguistic meaning as determined by grammar determines content. Grammatical meaning does not determine assertoric content, he argues, but merely constrains it—speaker’s meaning necessarily comes into play. On the alternative picture he offers, there are four basic levels, only one of which is determined by the grammar. Pragmatics is what enables the transition from each level to the next.

Conversion of object identity to object-general semantic value in the primate temporal cortex

Science ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 357 (6352) ◽  
pp. 687-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Tamura ◽  
Masaki Takeda ◽  
Rieko Setsuie ◽  
Tadashi Tsubota ◽  
Toshiyuki Hirabayashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Cortex ◽  
Object Identity ◽  
Semantic Value ◽  
General Semantic

Two‐Dimensional Semantics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Chalmers
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Cognitive Significance ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Semantic Value ◽  
Sense And Reference ◽  
Semantic Values ◽  
Distinctive Role

Two-dimensional approaches to semantics, broadly understood, recognize two ‘dimensions’ of the meaning or content of linguistic items. On these approaches, expressions and their utterances are associated with two different sorts of semantic values, which play different explanatory roles. Typically, one semantic value is associated with reference and ordinary truth-conditions, while the other is associated with the way that reference and truth-conditions depend on the external world. The second sort of semantic value is often held to play a distinctive role in analyzing matters of cognitive significance and/or context-dependence. In this broad sense, even Frege's theory of sense and reference might qualify as a sort of two-dimensional approach.

Hands-On Math in Kindergarten

2013 ◽  
pp. 772-782
Author(s):  
Helga Fiorani
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Semiotic Mediation ◽  
Mathematical Language ◽  
Mathematical Learning ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Semantic Value

The purpose of this contribution is to describe innovative proto-mathematical educational activities at kindergarten level (K) in the context of semiotic mediation. As a result of preliminary analysis of the major difficulties in writing numbers and recognizing the semantic value of the decimal position system found in primary school children, it was decided that the teaching of the different numbering systems would be brought into K, with the help of specific games. The goal is to demonstrate the importance of the natural and simple nature of “mathematical” language for the child, to stress the role of tools in the mathematical learning processes, and to highlight the role of the teacher in the collective mathematical discussion.

The closed-class vocabulary as a closed set

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Chafetz
Keyword(s):  
Older Children ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Word Acquisition ◽  
Closed Class ◽  
Class Function ◽  
Specific Language Impairments ◽  
Semantic Value ◽  
Normal Language ◽  
Open Class ◽  
Repetition Task

AbstractChildren who have normal language development are aware of the distinction between closed-class and open-class words at a very early age. In order to test to what extent children know the closed class to be, in fact, closed, 104 children aged 3 to 5 years participated in a sentence repetition task. Each sentence contained a nonsense word that fulfilled either an open-class or a closed-class function. Children were more likely to repeat sentences correctly when the nonsense words functioned in open-class, rather than in closed-class, contexts. In addition, older children correctly repeated more sentences containing nonsense words that functioned in closed-class contexts than younger children. This last result shows a mechanism by which children may acquire new closed-class words. The theoretical implications of the results are also discussed relative to children with specific language impairments, especially in terms of their reliance on semantic value in word acquisition.

scholarly journals Re-discovering the Semantics of אמן in Qal

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (184) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dempsey Rosales-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Value ◽  
Basic Semantic

This study presents a philological and semantic essay of the verb מן אָ in order to uncover the semantic Wortfeld of its qal conjugation. The most of philological and exegetic studies omit the analysis of this conjugation because they consider it insignificant and without any semantic value. Thus, they focus their studies on the nifal and hifil forms as the basic semantic platform that permeates all the grammatical forms of the shoresh אמן. This essay proposes a different opinion. The qal form is the primeval semantic substratum that permeates all the grammatical forms of the lexeme,אמן becoming the semantic platform upon which the meanings of the nifal and hifil conjugations are built.

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