Music, unlike ordinary language, can ‘make sense’ or have ‘meaning’ even when it does not refer to anything in particular (other than music). Although we often think of music as a kind of language, on the whole we do not regard it as a ‘translatable’ language, the inherent meaning of which could be sufficiently expressed in a different form. If you strip away the ornaments and metaphors of a po...

The contemporary cultural context is shaped by hyperlinks as a tool for establishing references that form our interpretations of notions, concepts, and phenomena into cohesive narrative. This paper aims to examine the practice visual citing in architectural discipline methodology takes principle intertextuality from discourse literary art introduces it design process. Furthermore, work intends ...

"Does modern digital media reconfigure the film’s message? The ubiquity of interactive screens alters social and emotional human interactions. Through advent within film workflow, ontological referentiality analog support becomes obsolete. medium can influence meaning structure message, which gradually starts losing its primary meanings due to shallow, inattentive viewing. Starting with aesthet...

Aim of the paper is the study of how architectural representation changed in the digital age, focusing the relationship between the two following opposing aspects: on one hand the idea of progressive loss of any referentiality with the real world—as suggested by the concept of “Hypereality” defined by Baudrillard at the end of the Seventies, i.e., a simulated reality more real of reality; on th...

The cultural profile of the literary haut lieu that is Edinburgh marked by a strong interest in violent history city, specifically, its legacy crime. This preserved variety material and immaterial archives, including substantial body fictional non-fictional literature, inscribed cityscape. It also commodified so as to attract international tourist trade. Using prime example Ian Rankin’s 2001 Re...

It is a well-known typological universal that long distance reflexives are generally monomorphemic and complex reflexives tend to be licensed only locally. I argue in this paper that the Hungarian body part reflexive maga ‘himself’ and its more complex counterpart önmaga ‘himself, his own self’ represent a non-isolated pattern that adds a new dimension to this typology. Nominal modification of ...

Financial derivatives are credited with bringing to the fore a number of sociological and metaphysical problems for modernity, from the instantiation of particular modalities of risk to the destabilization of referentiality in knowledge-claims about the world. This essay argues that derivatives can take on the particular power they hold in such accounts only through a repression of their mathem...

In this paper I propose a grammar component for defining and picking out semantic classes of nominals across languages within the HPSG framework, thus providing the basis for accounting for grammatical phenomena that bear on this issue. I introduce a semantic object that includes the referential index, or discourse referent, of a nominal, as well as different kinds of semantic features associat...

The quality of an object localization depends essentially on the adequate selection of a suitable reference. In most computational approaches developed so far only the distance between the located object and a potential reference object has been used as a decision criterion. However many other criteria have to be considered for a cognitive plausible selection of adequate reference points. In th...

Reference is the cognitive mechanism that binds real-world entities to their conceptual counterparts. Recent psycholinguistic studies using eye-tracking have shed light on the mechanisms used to establish shared referentiality across linguistic and visual modalities. It is unclear, however, whether vision plays an active role during linguistic processing. Here, we present a language production ...