Why do we say ‘neuroprotection’ in stroke when we mean ‘brain protection or cerebroprotection’?

What Do We Mean When We Say "Collaboration"?

What do we mean when we say an operation works?

At a conference the other day, while hotly debating the role of hip arthroscopic surgery in the management of osteoarthritis, a friend and colleague announced to the assembled throng, 'We know that hip arthroscopy doesn't work'. You would not have expected the Editor-in-Chief of this journal to remain silent at that moment and I certainly was not. However, what the statement did highlight, of c...

we say what we mean and we mean what we say

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Why do we say what we say the way we say it?

This paper seeks answer to the question why exactly we say what we say the way we say it. Although Giora (1997, 2003) argued that cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, play the most important role both in production and comprehension of language, most attention in pragmatics research has been focused on comprehension rather than production. This paper claims that...

What Do We Mean When We Speak About Named Entities?

The concept of Named Entity (NE) has its origin in the Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) tasks, an offspring of Information Retrieval systems, and became one of the main interest points in the Sixth and Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6, MUC-7) competitions, held back in 1995 and 1998 (Cinchor, 1997; Black, 1998). From then on, most competitions and programs inclu...