Upon its release in February 2015, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey met with vehement critical derision, inding itself reproached on both artistic and ideological grounds. While the precise focus of this indignation varied between reviews, complaints broadly fell into three categories: (1) it isn’t titillating enough (2) it is misogynistic, and (3) the love story and characters are cli...

Conceptual combination refers to the cognitive process by which people combine two or more concepts to represent a new conceptual entity. Literature has studied the primary interpretive strategies of a conceptual combination denoted by two nouns (e.g., robin snake): relation-linking (e.g., a robin snake is a snake that eats robins) and property-mapping (e.g., a robin snake is a snake that has r...

BACKGROUND Participatory approaches to qualitative research practice constantly change in response to evolving research environments. Researchers are increasingly encouraged to undertake secondary analysis of qualitative data, despite epistemological and ethical challenges. Interpretive focus groups can be described as a more participative method for groups to analyse qualitative data. OBJECT...

Agent-based modeling has proven to be particularly effective for fine-grain social modeling. However, so far, the modeling of social agents has not involved dynamics based on interpretive interaction. Meaning or interpretation plays a significant role in human interactions. These micro effects might create interesting effects on aggregate dynamics. The goal of the Interpretive Agent (IA) projec...

Abstract In this paper it is shown that interpretive canons are either constitutionally invalid because of the principles interpretation establishes, or a theory can be made to inconsistent: where says do p, then new canon say not-p. This called Canon Dilemma. Whichever horn dilemma taken as acceptable (accept invalidity possible inconsistency), shows cause more problems for theorising about th...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

with the emergence of the theory of control in linguistics and the introduction of pro as one of the empty categories in government and binding, one can find the investigation of the interpretive properties of pro in the generative agenda. within these studies, especially within the minimalist tradition, some new properties were added to the list while others lost their values. as such, a new p...