Search results for "RELEVANCE"

La regulación del derecho de alimentos en la Unión Europea

2015

El trabajo aborda una de las cuestiones más relevantes hoy en día en el marco de las relaciones familiares a nivel internacional. En efecto, el constante movimiento transfronterizo de personas implica inevitablemente un aumento de las relaciones familiares mixtas. Ello, a su vez, provoca un incremento de los conflictos de carácter familiar. De hecho, la inmensa mayoría de los casos, las reclamaciones de alimentos a nivel transfronterizo tienen su origen en un procedimiento de divorcio o separación judicial. Si a todo ello le unimos el nuevo marco económico surgido de la crisis económica global que estamos atravesando llegamos a la conclusión que el número de reclamaciones alimenticias a niv…

C'è dell'ananas nel vino? Descrizioni enologiche tra parassitaggio e modulazione pragmatica

2019

In questo articolo analizzeremo lo statuto semiotico-cognitivo dei descrittori dei vini comunemente utilizzati per asserire che un determinato vino ha sentore di frutta. Infatti, una delle caratteristiche più evidenti del lessico usato oggi per parlare del vino è la sua parentela con il lessico della frutta. Mostreremo come questa parentela tra lessico enologico e lessico della frutta si basi su un processo di dipendenza e non sia un generico fenomeno di prestito linguistico. Si tratta, infatti di un processo parassitario che trasforma il lessico della frutta da lessico asistematico con funzione denotativa – per cui con il termine “ananas” intendiamo riferirci agli ananas nel mondo – in un …

The Relevance of Systemic Approaches in Business Sciences

2015

Classification or non-classification of substances with positive tumor findings in animal studies: Guidance by the German MAK commission

2019

One of the important tasks of the German Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area (known as the MAK Commission) is in the evaluation of a potential for carcinogenicity of hazardous substances at the workplace. Often, this evaluation is critically based on data on carcinogenic responses seen in animal studies and, if positive tumor responses have been observed, this will mostly lead to a classification of the substance under investigation into one of the classes for carcinogens. However, there are cases where it can be demonstrated with a very high degree of confidence that the tumor findings in the experimental animals are not relevant…

A Method for Designing Tools for Information Retrieval from Documents

1987

The paper describes an experimental document database language. It consists of document database extensions to Prolog. An extended Prolog is suitable for specifying, prototyping, and in some cases also for implementing information retrieval tools.

On the social practice of indirect reports (further advances in the theory of pragmemes)

2010

Abstract This paper deals with the social practice of indirect reports and treats them as cases of language games. It proposes a number of principles like the following: Paraphrasis/Form Principle The that-clause embedded in the verb ‘say’ is a paraphrasis of what Y said, and meets the following constraints: should Y hear what X said he (Y) had said, he would not take issue with it, as to content, but would approve of it as a fair paraphrasis of his original utterance. Furthermore, he would not object to vocalizing the assertion made out of the words following the complementizer ‘that’ on account of its form/style. Furthermore, it connects such principles with Relevance Theory consideration…

The Attributive/Referential Distinction, Pragmatics, Modularity of Mind and Modularization

2011

In this paper I deal with the attributive/referential distinction. After reviewing the literature on the issue, I adopt Jaszczolt's view based on default semantics. I relate her view to Sperber and Wilson's Principle of Relevance. I argue in favour of the modularity hypothesis in connection with pragmatic interpretations. I also discuss the issue of modularization a la Karmiloff-Smith in connection with default inferences and, in particular, referential readings of NPs. I reply to some considerations by Cummings and use data from referential/attributive uses of NPs to show that the modularity hypothesis is defensible.

The exceptional nature of the first person in natural story processing and the transfer of egocentricity

2018

Human language enables us to externalise self-internal information (e.g. emotions or beliefs that are not readily accessible to others). Thus, language bridges the gap between the self and the other (e.g. Frith and Frith, 2010) in a way that possibly no other communication system can provide. In many languages, the difference between the self and others is directly reflected in the distinction between first (“I”), second (“you”) and third person (“he, she”) marking. In the present study, we compared ERPs to first, second and third person pronouns during the comprehension of an audio-book version of The Little Prince. Our results revealed a strong P300 response following first person pronoun…

The impact of Finno-Ugric languages in second language research: Looking back and setting goals

2012

This state of the art review aims at discussing the potential relevance of Finno-Ugric languages in the larger context of second language research. Key results received in the studies conducted in the field of Finno-Ugric languages as second languages are introduced, and some interim conclusions based on them are made. The main areas in focus are cross-linguistic influence, forms and constructions, second language interaction, and motivation, identities and integration. Furthermore, some future lines of investigation are suggested for the researchers of the field. The research activities are recommended to get more closely bound to the internationally established or emerging paradigms, and …

Pragmatic aspects of the translation of slang and four‐letter words

1994

Abstract The article discusses linguistic and societal attitudes to slang in Latvia and their relevance to its rendition in Latvian translations. For historical reasons, there is a wide gap between spoken and written colloquial layers in Latvian. Slang, and especially four‐letter words, function differently in Latvian compared to English, where they are used much more frequently and have lost their disturbing connotations. Accordingly, in Latvian translations they must be softened to achieve ‘similar effect’. Today, however, there is a clear‐cut tendency to liberalize the attitude towards slang and taboos, which can be explained by the recent radical changes in Latvian society. Direct trans…