Abstract Philosophy is beginning to pay problems of linguistic justice the attention they deserve in today's heavily interconnected and migrant world. Contemporary philosophy itself, however, has a particular problem that deserves metaphilosophical attention. At least philosophical tradition mainstream much world today, viz., analytic philosophy, methodological sociological mechanisms make it c...

Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed by the ordering of the words for languages like Mandarin Chinese, or Vietnamese, the word ordering is much less restricted for languages such as Inupiatun or Quechua, as these languages (also) use the internal structu...

In this study, we deal with texts in languages (Hebrew/Aramaic) which have been little studied. Moreover, Semitic language processing in general is of great interest today. In particular, we investigate how to classify Jewish Law articles written in Hebrew-Aramaic according to the ethnic group of their authors. The classification is done using only stems of words, excluding very frequent stems ...

A great deal of the caring work of nursing is accomplished and mediated through language. This paper attempts to characterize some of this language in quantitative and stylistic terms in an attempt to characterize the genre of nursing report language. Nursing students (n = 26) and graduate nurses (n = 3) viewed a videotape of a person being interviewed by a psychiatrist and produced written rep...