Overview

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Talmy
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
Generative Linguistics ◽  
Space And Time

Relevant to targeting, space and time in language can be understood as conceptual constructs that share numerous properties — e.g., they are matrices that are straight, evenly distributed, continuous, indefinitely extensive, and stationary, and that contain boundaries, bounded-off portions, and locations. Time uniquely has the properties of progression and grading. The theoretical framework proposed here for the targeting system distinguishes itself from approaches to comparable phenomena found in construction grammar, generative linguistics, computational linguistics, linguistic anthropology, language philosophy, and semiotics. Its seemingly unique features include a trigger’s initiating a hearer’s search for cues to a target, the division of such cues into ten categories, the hearer’s processing in determining this target, and the unity of this processing whether the target is inside or outside speech.

Theoretical framework

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Huber
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Motion Verbs ◽  
Motion Event ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Manner Verbs

Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the motion encoding typology as proposed by Talmy, Slobin, and others (manner- and path-conflating languages, different types of framing and their concomitant characteristics). It argues that this typology is highly compatible with a construction grammar framework, points out the differences, and shows that particularly from the diachronic perspective taken in this study, the constructionist approach has advantages over the originally lexicalist approach of the motion typology. The chapter also provides a discussion of the different categories of motion verbs used in this study (manner verbs, path verbs, neutral motion verbs, and verbs that do not evoke a motion event on their own, but can receive a contextual motion reading).

scholarly journals On the Return to Metaphysics in Analytical Philosophy of Mind

2018 ◽  
pp. 130-142
Author(s):  
G. A. Zolotkov
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Ordinary Language Philosophy ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind

The article examines the change of theoretical framework in analytic philosophy of mind. It is well known fact that nowadays philosophical problems of mind are frequently seen as incredibly difficult. It is noteworthy that the first programs of analytical philosophy of mind (that is, logical positivism and philosophy of ordinary language) were skeptical about difficulty of that realm of problems. One of the most notable features of both those programs was the strong antimetaphysical stance, those programs considered philosophy of mind unproblematic in its nature. However, the consequent evolution of philosophy of mind shows evaporating of that stance and gradual recovery of the more sympathetic view toward the mind problematic. Thus, there were two main frameworks in analytical philosophy of mind: 1) the framework of logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy dominated in the 1930s and the 1940s; 2) the framework that dominated since the 1950s and was featured by the critique of the first framework. Thus, the history of analytical philosophy of mind moves between two highly opposite understandings of the mind problematic. The article aims to found the causes of that move in the ideas of C. Hempel and G. Ryle, who were the most notable philosophers of mind in the 1930s and the 1940s.

scholarly journals The problem of polyfunctionality in the traditional and computational linguistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shakhnoza Kakhramonovna Gulyamova
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Information Retrieval System

This article describes in detail the study of multifunctional words in traditional linguistics by world and Uzbek scientists. Its relation to concomitant phenomena – homonymy and polysemy is expressed. It is noted that in computational linguistics, the question about the functional vocabulary is not understood, not solved the question of its purpose in the housing, on the agenda posed the need for prompt decision of this question by establishing a theoretical framework for the differentiation of polyfunctional vocabulary in information retrieval system.

Language, Culture and Identities: Theoretical Perspectives

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-42
Author(s):  
Stuart Dunmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Immersion Education ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
The Relationship

Various perspectives have been brought to bear on the interrelationship of language, culture and identity within sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, social psychology and linguistic anthropology. This chapter is structured into five overarching sections, setting out a wider theoretical framework surrounding the nexus of language and social life. The chapter seeks firstly to define a conceptual framework for examining the interplay of language and sociocultural identity, before addressing the symbolic value of languages, essentialist conceptions of identity and the relationship between language and nationalism. It then introduces the concept of language ideologies and reviews theoretical understandings of how speakers’ culturally constituted beliefs and feelings about language can be seen to impact upon their use of different linguistic varieties. The chapter subsequently considers language socialisation, and focuses on how bilingual (immersion) education may interact with considerations of language and identity, ideologies and socialisation in diverse settings internationally. The framework established will thus conceptualise how these matters can help to frame the key themes and objectives of the book.

Construction shifts in translations

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Serbina
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Linguistic Structures

In the present paper the phenomenon of translation shifts is discussed within the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar. It is suggested that viewing linguistic structures of various sizes and levels of abstractness as constructions allows us to better grasp the complexities of the phenomenon of translation shifts. The methodology of studying construction shifts is applied to the analysis of the construction [Subject Verb Direct Object] for the translation direction English-German. The quantitative results have been obtained using the parallel CroCo corpus.

scholarly journals The Ideal of Highly Mobile Prisoners. Re-Legitimating Prison through a New Paradox

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3938
Author(s):  
Christophe Mincke
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Time Result ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Representations Of Space ◽  
The Ideal

In our paper, we develop the hypothesis of a general call for high mobility and discuss the consequences of it regarding the legitimation of prison. First, we present the method we used for an analysis of the parliamentary documents of the Belgian penitentiary law. We then examine the contemporary social representations of mobility, looking for a definition of what is seen as being properly mobile, and show how intertwined social representations of space and time result in the prevalent vision of an inevitable and constant mobility. Next, we will thus discuss the importance of seeing mobility as much more than its material facet. Our following step will be to propose a formalization of the contemporary requisite for mobility. Through four imperatives (activity, activation, participation, adaptation), the mobilitarian ideal requires each person and organization to be constantly active, mobile, flexible, networking, etc. We argue that, today, we are all meant to be highly mobile. We will apply this theoretical framework to the legitimation of prison in the parliamentary documents of the 2005 Belgian Prison Act in which prison is open and porous, good inmates are described as dynamic individuals on the move, and the legitimate penitentiary system is a paradoxical mobilization system. We will conclude by discussing the need to reshape our vision of the prison, considering its apparently paradoxical relation with mobility.

A theoretical framework for product relationships description over space and time in integrated design

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 269-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Gruhier ◽  
Frédéric Demoly ◽  
Kyoung-Yun Kim ◽  
Said Abboudi ◽  
Samuel Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Space And Time

Relative clause extraction: Pragmatic dominance, processing complexity and the nature of crosslinguistic variation

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-65
Author(s):  
John Löwenadler
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Alternative Account ◽  
English Sentence ◽  
Syntactic Constraint ◽  
The Right ◽  
Crosslinguistic Variation ◽  
Authentic Data ◽  
Processing Difficulty

This paper concerns crosslinguistic differences in the acceptability of so-called relative clause extraction constructions, exemplified by the unacceptable English sentence *This boat I know the guy that owns(associated with the acceptable canonical sentenceI know the guy that owns this boat). It has sometimes been argued, since Ross (1967), that such extractions are universally blocked by a syntactic constraint. However, following observations of such structures in English and other languages, some linguists have argued that such sentences have varying degrees of acceptability and that the degree of acceptability depends on attention limits and pragmatic foregroundedness/backgroundedness. Another view which appears to have gained ground in recent years is one where the degree of acceptability is directly related to processing difficulty. The analysis presented in this paper is based on a comparison between English and Swedish, and includes authentic data, examples previously discussed in the literature, as well as acceptability-tested invented sentences. In the end it will be argued that, while the dominance- and processing-based proposals are on the right track, there is a more plausible and straightforward way of explaining the observed crosslinguistic variation using the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar. Thus, an alternative account will be presented drawing on general principles which are well established within cognitive- and construction-based theories.

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