research interests are multimodality, social semiotics and critical discourse analysis. 139 visual communication 4(2) 138 visual communication 4(2) INTRODUCTION I began studying visual communication as a linguist concerned with the discourses, genres and styles of media texts, 20 years ago. It had become increasingly obvious to me that it was no longer adequate to study just the linguistic aspe...

According to Steven Pinker’s blurb on the dust jacket, ‘‘Ray Jackendoff is a monumental scholar in linguistics who, more than any other scholar alive today, has shown how language can serve as a window into human nature. Combining theoretical depth with a love of revealing detail, Ray Jackendoff illuminates human reason and consciousness in startling and insightful ways.’’ Jackendoff is the aut...

transcendental is such a significant term in kant's thoughts that he calls his philosophy transcendental idealism. however, this term isn't used with the same meaning in his philosophy. since the term is associated with the same meaning in the works about kant, it seems necessary to clarify its meaning in order to prevent any misunderstanding. the subject of this paper is to clarify t...

This article reviews cognitive neuroscience research on visual and language processing to suggest an analogy between the neural interpolation mechanisms in perceptual processing and the constructive processes that underlie meaning construction in language. Traditional models of language comprehension as a decoding process are argued to involve an overattribution of the import of linguistic info...

This article offers a conception of semantics, and of what makes the human language faculty distinctive, based on five theses: Meanings are instructions to build concepts; concatenation calls for conjunction of monadic concepts; grammatical relations invoke certain thematic relations and a kind of existential closure; lexicalization is a partly creative process of abstraction; and meanings are ...

due to his nature, man always asks questions about the meaning of things. all branches of knowledge and civilization are the answers he has given to the mystery of being, of his own and of other things. here, the question about the meaning of action is also considerably important. in this study, we are going to analyze the answers given from a sociological view to the question about the meaning...

Opinion object-attribute extraction is one of the fundamental tasks of fine-grained sentiment analysis. It is accomplished by identifying opinion aspect entities (including object entities and attribute entities) and then aligning object entities to attribute entities. Recent studies on knowledge graphs have shown that by adding the embeddings of semantic structures between opinion aspect entit...