Semantics
Mostrando 1-12 de 377 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. COULD SIGN-BASED SEMANTICS AND EMBODIED SEMANTICS BENEFIT ONE ANOTHER?
Abstract I argue that Duffley’s sign-based semantics and embodied semantics may be mutually beneficial if we conceive them as a semantic theory and as a foundational theory, respectively. First, I describe embodied semantics as a research program that conceives the foundations of meaning in terms of embodied simulation. Afterwards, I draw attention to thre
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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2. REPLY TO “COULD SIGN-BASED SEMANTICS AND EMBODIED SEMANTICS BENEFIT ONE ANOTHER?”
Abstract Sign-based semantics and embodied semantics are argued to be mutually beneficial to one another. However, while the body does shape our cognitive activities to a great extent, this does not entail that cognition can be reduced to sensorimotor simulation, i.e that the mind can be reduced to the body. Language itself bears testimony to this, as the mi
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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3. LINGUISTIC MEANING MEETS LINGUISTIC FORM IN ACTION
Abstract In this paper we suggest that Duffley’s sign-based semantics rests on two main claims: a methodological one and an ontological one. The methodological one is the analysis of corpora and the ontological one is the postulate of mental content. By adopting a linguistic enactivist perspective with a Wittgensteinian twist, we endorse Duffley’s method
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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4. REPLY TO “LINGUISTIC MEANINGS MEET LINGUISTIC FORM”
Abstract Infiltration of a word’s meaning by world-knowledge is argued to be consistent with the semiological principle. While acknowledging variability in what people know about elephants, there is a common core of what everybody knows that we know we can evoke in anybody’s mind; this constitutes the meaning of the word “elephant”. Regarding truth-c
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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5. DO LINGUISTIC MEANINGS MEET LINGUISTIC FORM?
Abstract In this brief note, I offer some considerations to the effect of arguing (i) that Duffley's criticism to formal semantics is based on a dogma about the proper nature of the linguistic sing, and (ii) that, even when I agree with the general spirit of his realizational theory of meaning, an explicit theory of how syntax affects meanings realization is
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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6. REPLY TO “DO LINGUISTIC MEANINGS MEET LINGUISTIC FORM?”
Abstract In reply to the claim that syntax is not taken into account in Linguistic Meaning Meets Linguistic Form, I show that local syntactic analysis has been implemented in the treatment of aspectual verbs and verbs of positive and negative recall, where the syntactic function of the -ing form as direct object of the main verb is put into relation with the
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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7. REPLY TO “REFLEXIVITY, ROLE CONFLICTS, AND THE MEANING OF ENGLISH SELF PRONOUNS”
Abstract Stern’s Columbia School Theory contribution on English self-pronouns provides a wonderful illustration of the explanatory power of an approach that refuses to be taken in by a priori grammatical categories like reflexivity, which have the unfortunate consequence of giving the analyst the impression that he or she already knows all about the semant
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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8. COUNTERFACTUAL ANALYSIS BY ALGORITHMIC COMPLEXITY: A METRIC BETWEEN POSSIBLE WORLDS
Abstract Counterfactuals have become an important area of interdisciplinary interest, especially in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, decision theory, and even artificial intelligence. In this study, we propose a new form of analysis for counterfactuals: analysis by algorithmic complexity. Inspired by Lewis-Stalnaker's Pos
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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9. REPLY TO “PREDICTIVE PROCESSING AND THE SEMIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE: COMMENTARY TO DUFFLEY”
Abstract My notion of stable word meaning could correspond either to the root-node or the whole of a neurally-organized package and acknowledge that linguistic processing is largely holistic. The existence of words as context-free entities is not just a “cognitive idealization” however but a necessity, as otherwise speakers would have to make up their wo
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2022
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10. Integrated Reporting and Value Creation: the Semantics of the Fundamental Concept of Integrated Reporting
Resumo O objetivo desta pesquisa é construir a semântica do conceito de geração de valor, baseado na literatura existente, delimitada a proposta do Relato Integrado (RI). Este estudo é classificado como descritivo, bibliográfico e documental, e utilizou-se da análise de conteúdo. Foram analisados dezesseis artigos, três livros e um documento, com ba
Organizações & Sociedade. Publicado em: 2022
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11. KEVIN TOH’S EXPRESSIVIST READING OF H. L. A. HART, OR HOW NOT TO RESPOND TO RONALD DWORKIN
Abstract This paper criticises Kevin Toh’s expressivist reconstruction of H. L. A. Hart’s semantics of legal statements on the grounds that two implications of Toh’s reading are arguably too disruptive to Hart’s theory of law. The first of these implications is that legal statements are rendered indistinguishable from statements of value. The second
Manuscrito. Publicado em: 2020-06
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12. TRANSLATION AND METAPHYSICS: A CASE FOR FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
Abstract If different translations of the same literary work have different syntaxes and semantics, how are they supposed to be about one and the same fictional character? In order to answer this question it’s necessary to (a) know what fictional characters are and (b) present reference conditions for them. Relying on Amie Thomasson’s (1999, 2003, 2007)
Cad. Trad.. Publicado em: 2020-04