On the Emotive-Evaluative Meaning of Phraseological Units

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing

Towards the Automatic Identification of Spanish Verbal Phraseological Units

Verbal Phraseological Units are expressions made up of two or more words in which at least one of these words is a verb that plays the role of the predicate. Their main attribute is that this form of expression has taken on a more specific meaning than the expression itself. The automatic recognition of this type of linguistic structures is a very important task, since they are the standard way...

Evaluative judgments are based on evaluative information: Evidence against meaning change in evaluative context effects.

Trait adjectives commonly employed in person perception studies have both evaluative and denotative meanings. Evaluative ratings of single traits shift with variations in the context of other traits ascribed to the stimulus person; the extent to which denotative changes underlie these evaluative context effects has been a theoretical controversy. In the first experiment, it was shown that conte...

On the Existence of Primitive Meaning Units

Knowledge representation schemes are either based on a set of primitives or not. The decision of whether or not to have a primitive-based scheme is crucial since it affects the knowledge that is stored and how that knowledge may be processed. We suggest that a knowledge representation scheme may not initially have primitives, but may evolve into a prlmltive-based scheme by inferring a set of pr...