One of the key examples analysed in Edward Said’s Orientalism is Flaubert’s account his meeting with almeh Kuchiuk Hanem, a skilled dancer and courtesan, Egypt 1850. Frequently revisited by criticism following Said, has had an extraordinary afterlife which she seen as standing for Orient whole, instance synecdoche. We, postcolonial theorists, tend to interpret Kuchiuk-as-text (Flaubert’s notes ...

At the intersection between intellectual property protection and antitrust, the Microsoft case has now become a synecdoche, a part for the whole: the browser war has indeed evolved as a marginal skirmish that should be interpreted in the light of a more general IPR war. The paper describes the peculiar aspects and the questions that remain unsolved in the Microsoft case and points at the hidden...

based on an analogy between selection by plant and animal breeders of his day and what he termed “natural selection,” or more generally “selection.” “Natural selection” or “selection” for Darwin included what biologists came to see as being composed of (1) phenotypic selection of individuals based on phenotypic differences, and, when these are based on heritable genotypic differences, (2) genet...

Humans can prepare concise descriptions of pictures, focusing on what they find important. We demonstrate that automatic methods can do so too. We describe a system that can compute a score linking an image to a sentence. This score can be used to attach a descriptive sentence to a given image, or to obtain images that illustrate a given sentence. The score is obtained by comparing an estimate ...

This paper attempts to show that the intellectual construct women’s language is entirely justified on a political, ideological, and economic basis that stresses the fact that women have historically been victims of overt (and covert) discrimination and exploitation in our society. Linguistically speaking, however, a women’s language seems not to exist in traditional strict terms, but rather as ...

This research in progress uses tropes and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine technical support exchanges recorded over a one-year period. Tropes, such as metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche, function to close lexical gaps in a speaker’s vocabulary thereby extending a speaker’s expressive potential. Technical support exchanges are critically dependent on successful communication between ...

The noun nefeš is ascribed the sense of “corpse” in several instances Hebrew Bible. All them are analysed to trace possible development semantic field this word. It leads conclusion that implied arose from shortening longer phrases (nefeš 'ādām; mēt). used them, however, retains its basic meaning “person,” and reference a corpse only apparent context. In similar sense, author also reads use abb...

Traditional medicine (especially ayurvedic medicine) was taken by Indian nationalismas a synecdoche for traditional culture. In the face of European claims for scientific andtechnologic pre-eminence, Indian thinkers such as Aurobindo, Vivekananda,Radakrishnan, accepted European representations of Indian thinking as mystic andintuitive, to define it as distinctive of Indian ident...

What is the difference between description and explanation in linguistics? We take explanation to be the reduction of description to independently motivated general principles. For language, a promising source of independently motivated general principles can be found in neuroscience, and especially computational neuroscience. As an example, we consider the notion of historical change in word m...