Informal economy in the sector of street vendors or nowadays has become job many choose to reap coffers profits. One choices is trading coffee. The profits obtained can make build economic independence for business actors actors. This study discusses cultural meaning wandering among Madurese coffee traders know reasons behind traders. From another point view, not only done fulfill their daily n...

Forty undergraduate students participated in two experiments designed to investigate the impact of perceptual and conceptual encoding manipulations on implicit memory for emotional words in each cerebral hemisphere. Adopting a transfer appropriate processing approach, the encoding manipulations were designed to promote processing of the surface features of stimuli in Experiment 1, and their sem...

Many tendencies in social perceivers' judgments about individuals and groups can be integrated in terms of the premise that perceivers rely on implicit theories of agency acquired from cultural traditions. Whereas, American culture primarily conceptualizes agency as a property of individual persons, other cultures conceptualize agency primarily in terms of collectives such as groups or non-huma...

The experience of meaning is often conceptualized as involving reliable pattern or coherence. However, research has not addressed whether exposure to pattern or coherence influences the phenomenological experience of meaning in life. Four studies tested the prediction that exposure to objective coherence (vs. incoherence) would lead to higher reports of meaning in life. In Studies 1 and 2 (comb...

We distinguish between two versions of descriptivism. What we label “explanatory descriptivism” is a program for explaining how words get meaning and reference. Meaning descriptivism, on the other hand, is the view that many syntactically simple terms are synonymous with descriptions. It is a claim about what the meaning of such terms is, not about how the facts determine what the meaning is. E...

We are exploring an application for a novel direction in humancomputer interaction named ‘cultural computing’, which aims to provide a new medium for cultural translation. The main objective of this project is to create an interactive experience that encourages people to reflect on their self-concept. In Western culture the self-concept is generally based on conscious perception of the self. Th...

On the basis of neuropsychological and functional imaging evidence, meaning and grammatical class (particularly the verb-noun distinction) have been proposed as organizational principles of linguistic knowledge in the brain. However, previous studies investigating verb and noun processing have been confounded by the presence of systematic correlations between word meaning and grammatical class....

This article probes the connections between the metaphysics of meaning and the investigation of human communication. It first argues that contemporary philosophy of mind has inherited most of its metaphysical questions from Brentano’s puzzling definition of intentionality. Then it examines how intentionality came to occupy the forefront of 40 pragmatics in three steps. (1) By investigating spee...