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Petrucci, Alessandra, and Rosanna Verde, eds. SIS 2017. Statistics and Data Science: new challenges, new generations. Firenze University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-521-0.

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The 2017 SIS Conference aims to highlight the crucial role of the Statistics in Data Science. In this new domain of ‘meaning’ extracted from the data, the increasing amount of produced and available data in databases, nowadays, has brought new challenges. That involves different fields of statistics, machine learning, information and computer science, optimization, pattern recognition. These afford together a considerable contribute in the analysis of ‘Big data’, open data, relational and complex data, structured and no-structured. The interest is to collect the contributes which provide from

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Spaces, domains, and meanings: Essays in cognitive semiotics. Peter Lang, 2004.

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The dynamics of meaning: Explorations in the conceptual domain of Earth. Marie Curie-Skłodowska University Press, 2002.

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Brandt, Per Aage. Spaces, Domains, And Meaning: Essays In Cognitive Semiotics (European Semiotics, Vol. 4.). Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

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Brandt, Per Aage. Spaces, Domains, And Meaning: Essays In Cognitive Semiotics (European Semiotics, Vol. 4.). Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

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Saward, Michael. Democracy and Citizenship: Expanding Domains. Edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548439.003.0022.

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This article analyses some key recent threads in the debate about the meaning and scope of democracy and citizenship in contemporary political theory. It uses the frame of expanding domains to link the two concepts together in order to determine the impact that different innovations in democratic thinking have on the conception of citizenship. It also explores the ways which elements of contemporary innovative conceptions of democracy seek to reconstruct and reconstruct the concept of citizens and citizenship.

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Wellwood, Alexis. The Meaning of More. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804659.001.0001.

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This book re-imagines the compositional semantics of comparative constructions with words like “more”. It argues for a revision of one of the fundamental assumptions of the degree semantics framework as applied to such constructions: that gradable adjectives do not lexicalize measure functions (i.e., mappings from individuals or events to degrees). Instead, the degree morphology itself plays the role of degree introduction. The book begins with a careful study of non-canonical comparatives targeting nouns and verbs, and applies the lessons learned there to those targeting adjectives and adverb

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Koll-Stobbe, Amei. Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices: Polylingual Meaning-Making Across Domains, Genres, and Media. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Koll-Stobbe, Amei. Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices: Polylingual Meaning-Making Across Domains, Genres, and Media. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Koll-Stobbe, Amei. Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices: Polylingual Meaning-Making Across Domains, Genres, and Media. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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Koll-Stobbe, Amei. Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices: Polylingual Meaning-Making Across Domains, Genres, and Media. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2019.

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McNamara Barry, Carolyn, and Mona M. Abo-Zena. The Experience of Meaning-Making. Edited by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795574.013.22.

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Emerging adults are on a journey of self-discovery. In a nation founded on religious liberty, it is not surprising that so many emerging adults in the United States are focused on self-exploration concerning their religiousness and spirituality. This chapter addresses how religiousness and spirituality develop over the third decade by noting similarities and differences from previous and coming decades, the nature of religious and spiritual beliefs, the intersection of religious and spiritual development with developmental domains, and the outcomes associated with religiousness and spiritualit

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Peacocke, Christopher. The Primacy of Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835578.001.0001.

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Is the metaphysics of a domain prior in the order of philosophical explanation to a theory of intentional contents and meanings about that domain? Or is the opposite true? This book argues from the nature of meaning and intentional content to the conclusion that content and meaning are never prior to the metaphysics. For every domain, either a metaphysics-first view or a no-priority view is correct. Metaphysics-first views are developed for several specific domains. For extensive magnitudes, a new realistic metaphysics is developed, and this metaphysics is used to explain features of the perce

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Kemmerer, David. Concepts in the Brain. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682620.001.0001.

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For most native English speakers, the meanings of words like “blue,” “cup,” “stumble,” and “carve” seem quite natural. Research in semantic typology has shown, however, that they are far from universal. Although the roughly 6,500 languages around the world have many similarities in the sorts of concepts they encode, they also vary greatly in how they partition particular conceptual domains, how they map those domains onto syntactic categories, which distinctions they force speakers to habitually track, and how deeply they weave certain notions into the fabric of their grammar. Although these i

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Bezuidenhout, Anne. Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.31.

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The debate between contextualists and semantic minimalists about meaning/content is one that matters most to philosophers of language, even though the debate is not solely a philosophical one. There are at least three ways of casting the debate. Firstly, it can be cast as one about how and when semantic and pragmatic mental resources are used during ordinary conversational exchanges. This debate utilizes theories and methodologies from psychology. Secondly, it can be framed in terms of the logic of natural languages and how to incorporate context sensitivity into a formal, compositional model

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Lucius-Hoene, Gabriele, Christine Holmberg, and Thorsten Meyer, eds. Illness Narratives in Practice: Potentials and Challenges of Using Narratives in Health-related Contexts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198806660.001.0001.

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Illness narratives, patients’ stories about their experiences of illness, have gained a reputation as a scientific domain in medicine in the last thirty years. Patients’ stories about living with an illness, diagnostic procedures and treatments, encounters with medical institutions and its impact on their private and social life have been considered as an important access to their meaning-making and coping endeavours. They also play an important role in doctor-patient communication and the development of a healing relationship. This book aims at sensitizing professionals who use illness narrat

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Anagnostopoulou, Elena. Voice, manners, and results in adjectival passives. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767886.003.0005.

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The chapter argues that there are two functional heads in the VP domain: a little v head introducing an event and Voice introducing the external argument. Evidence is drawn from adjectival passives, which split into several types that can be described in terms of this architecture. The chapter explores the interaction between Voice, v, and manner vs. result interpretations of verbal meaning in resultant state vs. target state adjectival passives. First, a summary is given of the main arguments for postulating a v head and a Voice head in adjectival passives. The chapter then focuses on the abs

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Ye, Zhengdao, ed. The Semantics of Nouns. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736721.001.0001.

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This volume represents state-of-the-art research on the semantics of nouns. It offers detailed and systematic analyses of scores of individual nouns across many different conceptual domains—‘people’, ‘beings’, ‘creatures’, ‘places’, ‘things’, ‘living things’, and ‘parts of the body and parts of the person’. A range of languages, both familiar and unfamiliar, is examined. These include Australian Aboriginal languages (Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara), (Mandarin) Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Koromu (a Papuan language), Russian, Polish, and Solega (a Dravidian language). Each rigorous

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Verma, Vidhu. Secularism in India. Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.14.

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This chapter examines the historical emergence of secularism through movements, debates, and legal formulations to explain specific features that the concept has acquired in the context of India. The first part examines the tensions between the theoretical narratives of Indian constitutionalism and the practices of politics that led to the acceptance of certain essential conditions of secularism. The approach towards secularism found in writings of Nehru, Gandhi and Ambedkar are then discussed. The third part focuses on the ill-defined meaning of secularism that does not accurately reflect the

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Reber, Rolf, and Ara Norenzayan. Shared fluency theory of social cohesiveness. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789710.003.0003.

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A shared fluency theory of social cohesiveness is outlined that accounts for disparate phenomena under a unified framework. This starts from the well-known metacognitive feeling of processing fluency (henceforth fluency), which is the subjective ease with which a mental operation is performed. Fluency is extended to the social domain, and the notion of shared fluency is introduced, consisting of two aspects: interpersonal fluency, or the ease with which two people coordinate their behavior, and shared object fluency, meaning that people exposed to the same objects can process these objects mor

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Goddard, Cliff, and Anna Wierzbicka. Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Kellerman, Barbara. Future. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695781.003.0004.

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The chapter moves from where learning to lead was and is, to where it could go. It explores three domains to which attention must be paid. First is meaning-making—specifically the meaning we make of becoming a leader. Second is developing—specifically changing and growing during adulthood. Third is learning—specifically learning to lead lifelong, notably, again, during adulthood. The focus is on three different terms that, for no good reason, are used interchangeably: leadership education, leadership training, and leadership development. Finally, the discussion homes in on leadership developme

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Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Christopher P. Scheitle. Beyond Myths, Toward Realities. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190650629.003.0008.

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This chapter summarizes the myths and stereotypes that were dispelled and encourages readers to accept this reality moving forward. Suggestions are provided for scientists, religious people, and all those in between. Productive dialogue is possible, and there are several models of this dialogue already in existence. Scientists and religious communities should attempt to build upon shared concerns, while recognizing that technical disagreements often mask more subtle concerns about meaning and ethics. Both groups should recognize their assumptions about the other and how those assumptions are o

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Randall, Dave, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, and Volker Wulf. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733249.003.0001.

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The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and human–computer interaction (HCI) that in the future, if not already, most computer applications will be socially embedded, meaning that they will become infrastructures (in some sense) for the development of the social practices that they are designed to support. This will be true in an ever-increasing variety of domains and living conditions. Assuming that IT artifacts have to be understood in this sociotec

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Dacome, Lucia. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736189.003.0001.

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, anatomical models were propelled to the forefront of the anatomical world. The Introduction highlights how anatomical models became important social, cultural, and political as well as medical tools. Moreover, it sheds light on what a microhistorical perspective can offer to the study of anatomical modelling and anatomical displays. On the one hand, it points to how such an approach allows us to appreciate the fluidity of meaning that characterized the early stages of anatomical modelling and the variety of actors, including makers, students, artists,

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Stanghellini, Giovanni. Intimacy. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0042.

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This chapter argues that where narrativity ends, intimacy may begin. The clinical encounter is an aesthetic experience. One must dodge the scientific rationalism in order to preserve the phenomenological understanding and achieve an understanding of the meaning of a clinical situation as felt, rather than simply assessing objective signs and symptoms. The acceptance of atmospheres as clinically relevant phenomena is ultimately related to the acknowledgement of the ambiguous nature of the clinical encounter. The clinical encounter is an event suspended between the pathic and the linguistic doma

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Strada, E. Alessandra. The Sixth Domain of Palliative Care. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199798551.003.0007.

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This chapter proposes and describes palliative psychology competencies in the cultural domain of palliative care. It focuses on the importance of providing care that is consistent with the patient and family culture, including values, beliefs systems, and meaning-making processes. The construct culture is explored in its different applications pertaining to the health-care system. Cultural barriers to adequate palliative care are explored, identifying challenges and pitfalls that clinicians should avoid to provide culturally competent palliative care. Biases inherent in medical and psychologic

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Kitchener, Martin, and Richard Thomas. The Critical Health Care Management Domain. Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Kathleen Montgomery, and Anne Reff Pedersen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198705109.013.6.

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While the application of critical approaches has helped to reduce the conservatism and improve the relevance of scholarship in areas of health care studies including those concerned with social movements and the body, the impact of critical work has been less marked in health care management studies. After discussing the causes and implications of this phenomenon, this chapter extends the work of Burawoy (2004) and Delbridge (2010) to develop an articulation of Critical Health Care Management Studies (CHMS) as a necessary and distinctive domain of scholarship. We then review progress in develo

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de Zubicaray, Greig I., and Niels O. Schiller, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190672027.001.0001.

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Neurolinguistics is a young and highly interdisciplinary field, with influences from psycholinguistics, psychology, aphasiology, (cognitive) neuroscience, and many more. The scope and aim of this new Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics is to provide students and scholars with concise overviews of the state of the art in particular topic areas, and to engage a broad audience with an interest in the neurobiology of language. The chapters do not attempt to provide exhaustive coverage, but rather present discussions of prominent questions posed by a given topic. Part I covers the key techniques an

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Nuyts, Jan. Analyses of the Modal Meanings. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.1.

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This article deals with the semantic analysis of the notion of modality, surveying the most important traditional views in linguistics. After pointing out the problems encountered in the literature in trying to define the category, it first discusses the in the literature most common basic types of modality, namely, dynamic modality, deontic modality, and epistemic modality, as well as the less common basic category of boulomaic modality. It then goes on to survey a variety of alternative views on how the semantic domain of modality may be organized. The article also considers the types of cri

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Pagán Cánovas, Cristóbal, and Anna Piata. The Way Time Goes By. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.003.0004.

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Conceptual metaphor theory has used TIME IS SPACE as the paradigmatic case of projection from a concrete to an abstract domain. More recently, within the framework of conceptual integration or blending theory, a more complex view of time–space mappings—and of mappings in general—has been proposed. Rather than a binary, unidirectional projection between the vast experiential domains of TIME and SPACE, the blending account proposes that meanings combining time and motion emerge from successive integrations within a network of relatively small conceptual packets, including event structure, motion

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Phillips, Tom, and Armand D'Angour, eds. Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794462.001.0001.

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This book explores the interaction between music and poetry in ancient Greece. Although scholars have long recognized the importance of music to ancient performance culture, little has been written on the specific effects that musical accompaniment and features such as rhythmical structure and melody would have created in individual poems. The chapters in the first half of the volume engage closely with the evidential and interpretative challenges that this issue poses, and propose original readings of a range of texts, including Homer, Pindar, and Euripides, as well as later poets such as Sei

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Landau, Iddo. Conclusion I. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190657666.003.0018.

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This is the first of the two concluding chapters, both of which address general questions about meaning in life and the claims made in this book. Does this book discuss our perceptions of meaning in life or meaning in life itself? Do we find meaning or create it? Suppose that religious claims about the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are incorrect; could life still be deemed meaningful? Is it true that issues relating to the meaning of life are in the sole domain of psychology and psychiatry? And is existentialism a good source of guidance on the meaning of life?

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Hu, Xuhui. Encoding Events. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808466.001.0001.

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This book presents theoretical and empirical research on the syntax of events within the broader framework of generative grammar. A central theoretical concern is how conceptual meaning interacts with narrow syntactic computation in the derivation of the information of an event. A set of Integration Conditions are proposed. Building on the Conceptual-Intentional Interface Conditions proposed in Chomsky’s (1995, 2000, 2001) Minimalist Programme, the Integration Conditions require that the content of the predicate be licensed by theta-role information generated by narrow syntax. Another theoreti

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Wolfsdorf, David Conan. On Goodness. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688509.001.0001.

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On Goodness attempts to answer the question “What is goodness?” It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to ethics. Water and wine, a strategy for streamlining maintenance operations, and an oil painting may all be good and in non-ethical ways. Goodness figures prominently in ethics; so the study serves ethics. But it serves other domains as well. On Goodness is a contribution to the foundations of value theory. It is also a metaphysical inquiry, for two reasons. As the examples indicate, the entity under investigation is extremely general. Goodness oc

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Ferraro, Kenneth F. Causality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190665340.003.0002.

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Gerontologists are often skeptical of age as a presumed cause of the aging process. Although age is an indispensable marker of life experiences, it is a rather crude indicator of the many factors that actually shape the aging experience, including senescence. To address the multiple meanings associated with age, some gerontologists have advanced concepts such as biological age or functional age. These are useful concepts, isolating one domain or facet of aging, but even these concepts must be applied with a skepticism for age effects. Gullible gerontology ensues when well-meaning persons accep

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Forssbæck, Jens, and Lars Oxelheim, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917693.001.0001.

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In recent years, the term “transparency” has emerged as one of the most popular and keenly-touted concepts around. In the economic-political debate, the principle of transparency is often advocated as a prerequisite for accountability, legitimacy, policy efficiency, and good governance, as well as a universal remedy against corruption, corporate and political scandals, financial crises, and a host of other problems. Increased transparency is a bearing ideal behind regulatory reform in many areas, including financial reporting and banking regulation. Individual governments as well as multilater

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Bever, Thomas G. The Unity of Consciousness and the Consciousness of Unity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190464783.003.0005.

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Every language-learning child eventually automatically segments the organization of word sequences into natural units. Within the natural units, processing of normal conversation reveals a disconnect between listener’s representation of the sound and meaning of utterances. A compressed or absent word at a point early in a sequence is unintelligible until later acoustic information, yet listeners think they perceived the earlier sounds and their interpretation as they were heard. This discovery has several implications: Our conscious unified experience of language as we hear and simultaneously

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Ye, Zhengdao. The semantics of nouns. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736721.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter explains the distinctive features which give the volume its coherence and uniqueness in the studies of the semantics of nouns. It explains the rationale of the volume, the importance of adopting a cross-linguistic and cross-domain perspective, and the unified framework which the contributors use for meaning analysis and meaning representation. In particular, it introduces the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) methodology, its approach to the studies of semantic content and the conceptual structure of concrete vocabulary over the last four decades, and its latest met

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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Real Sex Films. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.001.0001.

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Within the domain of film studies, the recent surge in films depicting graphic and high-impact sex and sexualized violence has been variously classified under the terms transgressive, brutal, provocative, real sex, and extreme cinema. These classifications, however, tend to underplay the films’ sociohistorical contexts and reflexive struggle for meaning. We argue that the similarities and differences between these real or simulated sex films are determined and mediated within geographical space and historical time. But every film book has its own personal historical starting point: in our case

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Carston, Robyn. Pragmatics and Semantics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.19.

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A cognitive-scientific approach to the pragmatic interpretive ability is presented, according to which it is seen as a specific cognitive system dedicated to the interpretation of ostensive stimuli, that is, verbal utterances and other overtly communicative acts. This approach calls for a dual construal of semantics. The semantics which interfaces with the pragmatic interpretive system is not a matter of truth-conditional content, but of whatever components of meaning (lexical and syntactic) are encoded by the language system (independent of any particular use of the system by speakers in spec

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Marmysz, John. Introduction: Encounters. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424561.003.0002.

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The initial encounter with nihilism is commonly experienced as dreadful and debasing. It announces itself as a threat to our highest ideals, evaporating our confidence in the valued and cherished ‘truths’ upon which we previously grounded our sense of self, world and purpose. With this crisis we find ourselves suddenly at sea, adrift in the blackness of an unfamiliar, threatening and mysterious domain where nothing is certain, nothing possesses meaning, and the world seems unreal. The guideposts that we previously relied upon and had faith in can no longer be trusted, and we are lost....

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Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia, and Jenny Doetjes, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795858.001.0001.

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This volume offers an overview of current research on grammatical number in language. The chapters Part i of the handbook present foundational notions in the study of grammatical number covering the semantic analyses of plurality, the mass–count distinction, the relationship between number and quantity expressions and the mental representation of number and individuation. The core instance of grammatical number is marking for number distinctions in nominal expressions as in English the book/the books and the chapters in Part ii, Number in the nominal domain, explore morphological, semantic, an

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Cullity, Garrett. Context-Undermining. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807841.003.0007.

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Even when there is nothing wrong with the content of my welfare or self-expression, there may still be contextual facts that deprive you of a reason to respond to me with the concern or respect that would otherwise make sense. This chapter explains three ways in which such ‘context-undermining’ can arise: ‘agency-based’, ‘domain-based’, and ‘meaning-based’ ways. The main emphasis is on showing why we should say that these give rise to contexts in which you lack a reason you would otherwise have had, rather than contexts in which a persisting reason should be excluded from deliberation.

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Hughey, Matthew W., and Emma González-Lesser, eds. Racialized Media. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811076.001.0001.

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This book examines the design (imagining and producing), delivery (distribution, gatekeeping, and cultural mediation), and decoding (reception, consumption, and debate) of varied genres and styles of contemporary racialized media. In line with what the late great media sociologist Stuart Hall called the “circuit of culture,” the authors herein collectively analyze, first, the production side of imagining and encoding ideological meanings and narratives, the material structures, the people involved, and global political economy of media; second, the arena of distribution in which marketing stra

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Beaver, Dan. Ancient Liberties, Royal Honour, and the Politics of Commonweal in English Forests, 1558–1625. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.9.

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This chapter considers the interplay among the meanings of forests in Shakespeare’s plays and poems, the broader cultural meanings of forests in early modern England, and the significance of forests as an important domain of the English dynastic state during Shakespeare’s lifetime. Although Shakespeare’s forests did not directly reflect changing economic and social conditions, they did express his interest in the nature of political societies and allowed him to engage ideas about the traditional politics of social estates in late Tudor and early Stuart forests. Shakespeare’s forests thus came

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Alexandrova, Anna. Is There a Single Concept of Well-Being? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199300518.003.0001.

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Judgements of well-being across different circumstances and spheres of life exhibit a staggering diversity in the standards against which well-being is evaluated. This chapter considers three ways of interpreting this diversity: first, denying the legitimacy of this diversity by circumscribing the concept of well-being within a narrow domain of the most general evaluation (Circumscription); second, treating well-being as semantically invariant but differentially realisable (Differential Realisation); and third, allowing that the very meaning of well-being expressions varies with circumstances

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Huang, Minyao. Referential variability of generic ‘one’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0009.

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This chapter presents novel data regarding the semantic interpretation of generic ‘one’. First, it is argued that ‘one’ does not always refer to oneself while generalizing from the self’s experience. Moreover, based on the results of a reading comprehension survey, it is shown that ‘one’ can refer to (i) the speaker without generalization, (ii) anyone like the speaker, (iii) anyone in a certain class that does not necessarily include the speaker, or (iv) a non-speaker without generalization. The four types of reference are further analysed as two dimensions of contextual variation that interac

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Gallo, Ester. The Illam and Its Dispersion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199469307.003.0005.

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Chapter four examines Nambudiri houses and the place they hold in the material phenomenology of kinship memories. Houses are understood here not only as ‘private domestic’ places but as domains where families’ engagement with political history is expressed, visualiszd (or hidden) in internal spatial dispositions, in the presentation of objects, in the daily routine, and in consumption practices. Indeed, houses are conceived as sites where kinship is ‘made’ by either reproducing the past, or by searching a distance from it. The social and symbolic significance of past Illams architecture (Nambu

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Lidz, Jeffrey L. Quantification in Child Language. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.013.21.

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This chapter addresses role of cognitive, information processing and learning mechanisms underlying children’s acquisition of quantifiers in natural language. We discuss the cognitive mechanisms that provide content to quantificational expressions, constraints on possible quantifier meanings, and the role of syntax in identifying a novel word as quantificational. We also examine the syntax and semantics of quantifiers in development, examining interactions between multiple scope bearing expressions in a single sentence. We explore the grammatical and psycholinguistic constraints at play in sha

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