Figuration and the Child

Figuration and grammaticalization

There is broad agreement among evolutionary linguists that the emergence of human language, as opposed to other primate communication systems, is characterised by two key phenomena: the use of symbols, and the use of grammatical structure (Tomasello 2003). In this paper, we show that these two defining aspects of language actually emerge from the same set of underlying cognitive mechanisms with...

a study of the fifth child and ben in the world by doris lessing in the light of julia kristevas psychoanalytic concepts

این مطالعه به بررسی عوامل روانشناختی کریستوادردو رمان دوربس لسینگ،فرزندبنجم و بن دردنیای واقعی می بردازد.موفقیت یا شکست کاراکترهادر تکمیل شکست تتیزی یه کمک بدر وهم از مهم ترین دغدغه محقق می باشد.به بررسی تحلیل روانشناختی تمامی کاراکترها خصوصا بن برداخته و به دنبال نشانه هایی از جامعه شیشه ای کریستوا می باشد.

Constructing a Rhetorical Figuration Ontology

Many essential components of language charted by rhetoric, the ancient study of persuasion, remain understudied and underrepresented in current Natural Language systems. Our goal is to combine linguistic and rhetorical theories with discourse analysis and machine learning to develop formal models of computational rhetoric that may be usefully applied in real-world Computational Linguistics syst...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Globalization, or the Vanishing Present of Postcolonialism? (and the Figuration of the Comprador-IntellectuaI)