Meanings of Fashion: Context Dependence

104 the Context - Dependence of " Intonational Meanings "

Designing in the Context of Fashion – Designing the Fashion Context

Fashion is a collective cultural phenomenon generated by the individual but linked to actions of a very large number of garment designers aiming to create distinctive but similar clothes. This paper outlines the mental processes, behavioural strategies and working patterns through which fashion and knitwear designers actively construct the contexts – their visual environments as well as memorie...

A context-sensitive representation of word meanings.

This study provides a numerical representation of contextual effects on the meanings of words, constructed from the order judgments of 19 subjects concerning the word "red" in 19 sentences. Subjects judged whether or not the red object mentioned in a sentence was redder than, less red than, or could be equally as red as the red object mentioned in each of the other sentences. These judgments we...

Dominance and context effects on activation of alternative homophone meanings.

Two eyetracking-during-listening experiments showed frequency and context effects on fixation probability for pictures representing multiple meanings of homophones. Participants heard either an imperative sentence instructing them to look at a homophone referent (Experiment 1) or a declarative sentence that was either neutral or biased toward the homophone's subordinate meaning (Experiment 2). ...

DOMINANCE AND CONTEXT EFFECTS 1 Running Head: DOMINANCE AND CONTEXT EFFECTS ON HOMOPHONE MEANINGS Dominance and context effects on activation of alternative homophone meanings

Two eye-tracking during listening experiments found frequency and context effects on fixation probability of pictures representing multiple meanings of homophones. Participants heard either an imperative sentence instructing them to look at a homophone referent (Experiment 1) or a declarative sentence that was either neutral or biased towards the homophone‘s subordinate meaning (Experiment 2). ...